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An interview with Rosetta Le Noire

Title
  1. An interview with Rosetta Le Noire / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
Published by
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
Author
  1. LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002

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Additional authors
  1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
  1. 2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Rosetta Le Noire discusses her career, AMAS Repertory Theatre, family, and reminisces about friends and earlier times. Childhood; memories of Harold Jackman; the mission of AMAS Repertory Theatre; where AMAS began and its founders; street theater; anecdote about Mary McLeod Bethune; how she received funding from the NY State Council of the Arts; transition from her basement to several churches; origin of AMAS Eubie Blake Theatre (children's theater); her philosophy of children's theater; her expectations of the children and the theater routine; development of "Bubbling Brown Sugar"; reminisces of Harlem; memories of her father; Charlie Buchanan and efforts to obtain his papers; quote by Avon Long about black actors; where black performers stayed when on the road; racism today; her childhood compared with environment for children today; drug problem; why she is still involved with AMAS; many graduates of AMAS on Broadway now; future shows; Dick Campbell; future shows- "Louisiana Summer," "Blackbirds"; Bojangles; beginnings in theater; memories of Bojangles; anecdotes about Ethel Waters; "Anna Lucasta"; family.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subject
  1. LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002 -- Interviews
  2. Jackman, Harold, 1901-1961 -- Influence
  3. Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949 -- Anecdotes
  4. Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977 -- Anecdotes
  5. Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 -- Anecdotes
  6. AMAS Musical Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
  7. African American actresses -- Interviews
Genre/Form
  1. Nonfiction films.
  2. Interviews.
  3. Oral histories.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual VRA-150
Terms of use (note)
  1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  1. Rosetta Le Noire is an actress and founder and artistic director of AMAS Repertory Theatre.
Author
  1. LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002, interviewee.
Title
  1. An interview with Rosetta Le Noire / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
Publisher
  1. New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file DVD
Performer
  1. Interviewer, Jean Blackwell Hutson.
Event
  1. Recorded October 22, 1982 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Terms of use
  1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography
  1. Rosetta Le Noire is an actress and founder and artistic director of AMAS Repertory Theatre.
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Added author
  1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.
  2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1351
  2. Sc Visual VRB-1591-1592 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-150.
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