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Interview with Doris Eaton Travis

Title
  1. Interview with Doris Eaton Travis [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Published by
  1. New York, c2005.

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Additional authors
  1. Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010
  2. Howard, Ralph
  3. Hoffman, Patrick
  4. Character Generators/Video
  5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
Description
  1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (76 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
Summary
  1. Veteran performer Doris Eaton Travis talks about her career on stage and screen with interviewer Ralph Howard. She discusses her family, almost all of whom were in show business, her early years as a Ziegfeld girl in the Ziegfeld follies of 1918 and 1919, colleagues such as Eddie Cantor, W.C. Fields, Al Jolson and Fanny Brice, and her later career in silent movies. The difficulty of finding work during the Depression led Ms. Travis to become a dance instructor, and she eventually managed several Arthur Murray dance studios, starting with one in Detroit. In later years Ms. Travis travelled the world, learning new dances.
Subject
  1. Fields, W. C (William Claude), 1880-1946 > Friends and associates
  2. Eaton, Pearl, 1898-1958 > Family
  3. Interviews
  4. Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964 > Friends and associates
  5. Jolson, Al, 1886-1950 > Friends and associates
  6. Murray, Arthur, 1895-1991 > Friends and associates
  7. Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010 > Interviews
  8. Ziegfeld follies
  9. Eaton, Mary, 1901-1948 > Family
  10. Motion pictures > United States > 1921-1930
  11. Ziegfeld girls
  12. Dancers > United States > Interviews
  13. Arthur Murray Schools of Dancing
  14. Dance teachers > United States > Interviews
  15. Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
  16. Dance schools > Michigan
  17. Brice, Fanny > Friends and associates
  18. Dance schools > United States
  19. Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010 > Friends and associates
  20. Ziegfeld, Flo, 1869-1932 > Friends and associates
Genre/Form
  1. Interviews.
Call number
  1. NCOW 283
Access (note)
  1. Restricted to qualified researchers.
Event (note)
  1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 20, 2005.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Title
  1. Interview with Doris Eaton Travis [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Imprint
  1. New York, c2005.
Access
  1. Restricted to qualified researchers.
Performer
  1. Interviewed by Ralph Howard.
Event
  1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 20, 2005.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
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  1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material
Local subject
  1. Ziegfeld girls.
Added author
  1. Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010, interviewee.
  2. Howard, Ralph, interviewer.
  3. Hoffman, Patrick.
  4. Character Generators/Video.
  5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Research call number
  1. NCOW 283
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