Romney Brent papers
- Title
- Romney Brent papers, 1934-1975 (bulk dates 1969-1975)
- Supplementary content
- Author
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
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Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerreel 2 (1936-1937) | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-566 reel 2 (1936-1937) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Not available - Please for assistance. | ContainerVol. 2 (1936-1937) | FormatMixed material | AccessRestricted use | Call number*T-Mss 1998-011 Vol. 2 (1936-1937) | Item locationOffsite Rose - Performing Arts |
Status Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Containerreel 1 (1933-1935) | FormatMixed material | AccessUse in library | Call number*ZC-566 reel 1 (1933-1935) | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Status Not available - Please for assistance. | ContainerVol. 1 (1933-1935) | FormatMixed material | AccessRestricted use | Call number*T-Mss 1998-011 Vol. 1 (1933-1935) | Item locationOffsite Rose - Performing Arts |
Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre | ContainerBox 1 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call number*T-Mss 1998-011 Box 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
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- Description
- .41 lin. ft. (1 box)
- Summary
- The Romney Brent papers document his career and contain correspondence, photographs and two scrapbooks.
- Subject
- Call number
- *T-Mss 1998-011
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Reproduction (note)
- are available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Romney Brent
- Biography (note)
- Romney Brent, actor, writer and director was born in Mexico in 1902.
- Processing action (note)
- Processed
- Microfilmed
- Author
- Brent, Romney, 1902-1976.
- Title
- Romney Brent papers, 1934-1975 (bulk dates 1969-1975)
- Reproduction
- Scrapbooks are available on microfilm; Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; *ZC 566
- Restricted access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Romney Brent, actor, writer and director was born in Mexico in 1902. He became an actor after viewing a Theatre Guild production, having tried both engineering and the law. His first role was as an acrobat in the production HE WHO GETS SLAPPED. Brent's acting career included roles in plays such as: PEER GYNT, THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE, THE SQUALL, ANDROCLES AND THE LION, in which he played The Lion, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE as Launcelot Gobbo, and many others.
- During the 1940s he began directing as well as acting. Some productions he directed include: THE WINTER'S TALE, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, BRIGADOON and a Spanish language production of THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON. Romney Brent was a member of the State Department sponsored tours of South American in 1956, Europe and Latin America in 1961, and the Far East, with Helen Hayes, in 1965.
- He wrote the comedy THE MAD HOPES in 1932 and collaborated on NYMPH ERRANT with Noel Coward. He married the actress Gina Malo in 1930 and had one daughter. Romney Brent died in Mexico City in 1976 at the age of 74.
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- Added author
- Chase, Ilka, 1905-1978.
- Hayes, Helen, 1900-1993.
- Ibsen, Lillebil, 1899-1989.
- Lunt, Alfred.
- Marshall, Armina.
- Martin, Mary, 1913-1990.
- Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 1901-1979.
- Williams, Emlyn, 1905-1987.
- Wood, Peggy, 1892-1978.
- Research call number
- *T-Mss 1998-011
- *ZC-566