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Description

1. .1 lf. (1 portfolio)

Summary

1. The Anderson Lawler correspondence spans 1927-1959, and consists mostly of telegrams, most of them from Lawler to his mother sending best wishes on various holidays and other occasions, and sometimes giving updates on his career.

Subject

1. Vélez, Lupe, 1906-1944
2. Mayfair Club (Los Angeles, Calif.)
3. Motion picture actors and actresses > California > Los Angeles
4. Theater > New York (State) > New York
5. Gaynor, Janet
6. Lawler, Anderson, 1902-1959
7. Cukor, George, 1899-1983
8. Bankhead, Tallulah, 1902-1968
9. Telegrams

Genre/Form

1. Telegrams.

Call number

1. *T-Mss 2001-034

Access (note)

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Source (note)

1. Manuscripts Division

Biography (note)

1. Anderson Lawler was a stage and screen actor, later a producer.

Processing action (note)

1. Processed

Author

1. Lawler, Anderson, 1902-1959.

Title

1. Anderson Lawler correspondence, 1927-1959.

Restricted access

1. Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

1. Anderson Lawler was a stage and screen actor, later a producer. Born in Russellville, Alabama, in 1902 (some sources say 1904), Anderson Lawler acted in several stage plays in the 1920s, went to Hollywood in 1929, and acted in a number of films over the next ten years, including BE YOURSELF! (1930) with Fanny Brice, George Cukor's GIRLS ABOUT TOWN (1931), Frank Capra's AMERICAN MADNESS (1932), RIPTIDE (1934) with Norma Shearer, and EVER SINCE EVE (1937) with Marion Davies. Lawler also worked as a talent scout, and after 1939 he gave up acting and served as an associate producer for 20th Century Fox, for whom he produced Joseph L. Mankiewicz' SOMEWHERE IN THE NIGHT (1946). Returning to New York in the 1950s he produced several plays, including OH MEN, OH WOMEN. Anderson Lawler died of a heart attack on April 6, 1959.

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Research call number

1. *T-Mss 2001-034