Research Catalog

Title

Lucille Lortel papers, 1902-2000.

Author

Lortel, Lucille.

Supplementary Content

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Additional Authors

• Black, Kitty, 1914-
• Cotes, Peter, 1912-
• Grew, Mary, 1902-1971.
• Halligan, Maureen.
• Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993.
• Wax, Emanuel.
• White, Leonard.
• Acker, Sylvia.
• Allison, Michael.
• Berman, Lois.
• Brown, Tina Tippit.
• Drake, Edith.
• Drake, Ervin.
• Farrell, Minerva.
• Hodges, Gil.
• Hodges, Lonnie.
• McConnell, Maryanna.
• Martin, Elliot.
• Montevecchi, Liliane.
• Oakie, Victoria Horne.
• Lewis, Abby.
• Seymour, John D., 1897-
• Sosenko, Anna.
• Stevenson, Isabelle, 1915-2003.
• Taylor, Robert.
• Tompkins, Robert.
• Volle, Danielle, -2000.
• Williams, Maggie.
• Albee, Edward, 1928-2016.
• Blessing, Lee.
• Dalrymple, Jean.
• Fugard, Athol.
• Havoc, June.
• Hiss, Alger.
• Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995.
• Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.
• Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.
• Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991.
• Mason, Marshall W.
• O'Casey, Eileen.
• O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.
• Rainer, Luise, 1910-
• Saddler, Donald.
• Strasberg, Anna.
• Strasberg, Lee.
• Wallace, Hazel Vincent, 1919-
• Curcio, Vincent.
• Eliot, Drew.
• Glenn, Robert.
• Henderson, Mary C., 1928-2012.
• Marvin, Blanche.
• Wilson, Edwin, 1927-

Description

• 49.61 lf. (121 boxes)
• Scrapbooks on 25 reels of microfilm
• Correspondence on 17 reels of microfilm

Summary

• The papers of Lucille Lortel relate the details of her life and career from teen years to her death in 1999, and include correspondence, production files, scripts, programs, production photographs, personal and family photographs, organization files, clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks.
• In addition to documentation of her theatrical enterprises, the Lucille Lortel papers also contain material concerning her family and her husband Louis Schweitzer.

Subjects

• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Lortel, Lucille
• Rainer, Luise, 1910-2014 > Correspondence
• Glenn, Robert > Correspondence
• Hodges, Gil > Correspondence
• Blessing, Lee > Correspondence
• Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993 > Correspondence
• Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991 > Correspondence
• Stevenson, Isabelle, 1915-2003 > Correspondence
• Wax, Emanuel > Correspondence
• Curcio, Vincent > Correspondence
• Martin, Elliot > Correspondence
• White Barn Theatre
• Lortel, Lucille > Correspondence
• Strasberg, Anna > Correspondence
• Lortel, Lucille > Friends and associates
• Saddler, Donald > Correspondence
• O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964 > Correspondence
• Oakie, Victoria Horne > Correspondence
• Eliot, Drew > Correspondence
• Cotes, Peter, 1912- > Correspondence
• Musical theater > United States
• Farrell, Minerva > Correspondence
• McConnell, Maryanna > Correspondence
• White, Leonard > Correspondence
• Taylor, Robert > Correspondence
• Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004 > Correspondence
• Marvin, Blanche > Correspondence
• Lewis, Abby > Correspondence
• Correspondence
• Off-Broadway theater
• O'Casey, Eileen > Correspondence
• Wilson, Edwin, 1927- > Correspondence
• Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994 > Correspondence
• Brown, Tina Tippit > Correspondence
• Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995 > Correspondence
• Lucille Lortel Theatre/Theatre de Lys (New York, N.Y.)
• Wallace, Hazel Vincent, 1919- > Correspondence
• Montevecchi, Liliane > Correspondence
• Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• Volle, Danielle, -2000 > Correspondence
• ANTA (Organization)
• Hiss, Alger > Correspondence
• Albee, Edward, 1928-2016 > Correspondence
• Drake, Ervin > Correspondence
• Grew, Mary, 1902-1971 > Correspondence
• Havoc, June > Correspondence
• Scrapbooks
• Tompkins, Robert > Correspondence
• Strasberg, Lee > Correspondence
• Black, Kitty, 1914- > Correspondence
• Clippings
• Acker, Sylvia > Correspondence
• Sosenko, Anna > Correspondence
• Williams, Maggie > Correspondence
• Allinson, Michael > Correspondence
• Photographs
• Hodges, Lonnie > Correspondence
• Seymour, John D., 1897- > Correspondence
• Fugard, Athol > Correspondence
• Halligan, Maureen > Correspondence
• Dalrymple, Jean > Correspondence
• Mason, Marshall W > Correspondence
• Drake, Edith > Correspondence
• Theatre de Lys
• Berman, Lois > Correspondence
• Musicals
• Henderson, Mary C., 1928-2012 > Correspondence
• Theatrical producers and directors

Genre/Form

• Correspondence.
• Clippings.
• Photographs.
• Scrapbooks.

Access (note)

• Collection is open to the public, with some materials only available on microfilm. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Additional Formats (note)

• are also available on microfilm:

Source (note)

• Lortel, Lucille

Biography (note)

• Lucille Lortel (1900-1999) began her theatrical career as a performer, eventually turned producer, founded the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, acquired the Theatre dy Lys in Greenwich Village, and became a seminal force in the Off-Broadway movement.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

*T-Mss 2001-006

OCLC

NYPW03-A34

Author

Lortel, Lucille.

Title

Lucille Lortel papers, 1902-2000.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public, with some materials only available on microfilm. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Additional Formats

Scrapbooks are also available on microfilm: The Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; service copy number: *ZC-606.

Biography

Lucille Lortel (1900-1999) began her theatrical career as a performer, eventually turned producer, founded the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut, acquired the Theatre dy Lys in Greenwich Village, and became a seminal force in the Off-Broadway movement. Born Lucille Wadler in New York City on December 16, 1900, Lucille Lortel studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and with Arnold Korff in Europe. She had her first notable role in the Theatre Guild's production of Shaw's CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA with Helen Hayes in 1925. Among her motion pictures was the early talking film THE MAN WHO LAUGHED LAST (1929) opposite Sessue Hayakawa. Shortly after marrying wealthy industrialist Louis Schweitzer in 1931, Lortel retired from acting. In 1947, on the grounds of her Westport home, she established the White Barn Theatre, a summer theater which continues to operate. In 1955 Schweitzer purchased the Theatre de Lys for his wife, whose production of THE THREEPENNY OPERA ran there for almost seven years. In 1956 Lortel initiated the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) Matinee Series, which presented plays at her theater for twenty years. Lortel produced more than 500 shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at the Library of Congress, at her White Barn Theatre, and elsewhere. The Theatre de Lys was renamed the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1981. Lucille Lortel died on April 4, 1999, at the age of 98.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Black, Kitty, 1914-

Cotes, Peter, 1912-

Grew, Mary, 1902-1971.

Halligan, Maureen.

Wanamaker, Sam, 1919-1993.

Wax, Emanuel.

White, Leonard.

Acker, Sylvia.

Allison, Michael.

Berman, Lois.

Brown, Tina Tippit.

Drake, Edith.

Drake, Ervin.

Farrell, Minerva.

Hodges, Gil.

Hodges, Lonnie.

McConnell, Maryanna.

Martin, Elliot.

Montevecchi, Liliane.

Oakie, Victoria Horne.

Lewis, Abby.

Seymour, John D., 1897-

Sosenko, Anna.

Stevenson, Isabelle, 1915-2003.

Taylor, Robert.

Tompkins, Robert.

Volle, Danielle, -2000.

Williams, Maggie.

Albee, Edward, 1928-2016.

Blessing, Lee.

Dalrymple, Jean.

Fugard, Athol.

Havoc, June.

Hiss, Alger.

Kingsley, Sidney, 1906-1995.

Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.

Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.

Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991.

Mason, Marshall W.

O'Casey, Eileen.

O'Casey, Sean, 1880-1964.

Rainer, Luise, 1910-

Saddler, Donald.

Strasberg, Anna.

Strasberg, Lee.

Wallace, Hazel Vincent, 1919-

Curcio, Vincent.

Eliot, Drew.

Glenn, Robert.

Henderson, Mary C., 1928-2012.

Marvin, Blanche.

Wilson, Edwin, 1927-

Research Call Number

*T-Mss 2001-006

*ZC-606