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An interview with Rosetta Le Noire
- Title
- An interview with Rosetta Le Noire / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Author
- LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002
- Publication
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 2 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1351 Disc 2 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1351 Disc 1 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (73 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- 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
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Interviews
- AMAS Musical Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949 > Anecdotes
- Jackman, Harold, 1901-1961 > Influence
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955 > Anecdotes
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977 > Anecdotes
- Oral histories
- LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002 > Interviews
- African American actresses > Interviews
- Nonfiction films
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography (note)
- Rosetta Le Noire is an actress and founder and artistic director of AMAS Repertory Theatre.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual VRA-150
- OCLC
- 26452614
- 26452614
- Author
- LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002, interviewee.
- Title
- An interview with Rosetta Le Noire / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1982.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file DVD
- Performer
- Interviewer, Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Event
- Recorded October 22, 1982 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- Terms Of Use
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography
- Rosetta Le Noire is an actress and founder and artistic director of AMAS Repertory Theatre.
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- Added Author
- Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewer.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1351Sc Visual VRB-1591-1592 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-150.