Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Bloom, Claire, 1931-
2. LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002
3. Wilson, Edwin, 1927-
4. City University of New York

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (112 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Four separate interviews, two with Claire Bloom and two with Rosetta Le Noire (ca. 28 min. each)
2. Claire Bloom discusses her first professional experiences at age 16, after little formal training, with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, the roles she played until her breakthrough playing Juliet at age 21 for the Old Vic Company, the differences in playing Shakespeare's Juliet and Ophelia, her audition for Charlie Chaplin for a role in Limelight, Chaplin's direction of the movie, why she chose a career in theater rather than film, her experiences acting with Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, and her experiences playing Henrik Ibsen's The doll's house and Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A streetcar named Desire.
3. Rosetta LeNoire talks about her childhood, dancing with Bill Bojangles Robinson, studying voice with Eubie Blake, how she got the role in Arthur Sullivan's The Hot Mikado on Broadway, playing for seven years in Philip Yordan's Anna Lucasta with an all-black cast, the difficulty for blacks of getting roles, founding the AMAS Musical Theatre as a multiracial group, her activities with the USO and the Federal Theatre Project, Orson Welles' Macbeth with a black cast, and her interest and work for racial harmony.

Series statement

1. CUNY Spotlight

Alternative title

1. Limelight (Motion picture)
2. The doll's house.

Subject

1. African American actors > Economic aspects
2. Actresses > Interviews
3. Yordan, Philip > Anna Lucasta
4. AMAS Musical Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
5. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Ophelia
6. Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983
7. Royal Shakespeare Company
8. LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002 > Interviews
9. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Macbeth
10. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Characters > Juliet
11. Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 > Friends and associates
12. Richardson, Ralph, Sir, 1902-1983 > Friends and associates
13. African American theater > New York (State) > New York
14. Olivier, Laurence, 1907-1989 > Friends and associates
15. Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
16. Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 > Dukkehjem English
17. Old Vic Company
18. Bloom, Claire, 1931- > Interviews
19. African American actresses > Interviews
20. Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 > Streetcar named Desire
21. Interviews
22. Welles, Orson, 1915-1985 > Friends and associates
23. Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 > Mikado (Hot Mikado)
24. American Service Organizations (U.S.)
25. Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 107

Note

1. Part of the series, CUNY Spotlight, broadcast on CUNY-TV, sponsored by the City University of New York.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.

Title

1. [Interviews with Claire Bloom and Rosetta LeNoire] [videorecording] / City University Television, The Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts (CASTA) [presents]

Imprint

1. New York, 1991.

Series

1. CUNY Spotlight

Performer

1. Interviewed by Edwin Wilson.

Event

1. Videotaped by the cable station, CUNY-TV, New York, N.Y.

Added author

1. Bloom, Claire, 1931- interviewee.
2. LeNoire, Rosetta, 1911-2002, interviewee.
3. Wilson, Edwin, 1927- interviewer.
4. City University of New York.

Added title

1. Limelight (Motion picture)
2. The doll's house.

Research call number

1. NCOW 107