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[Interview with June Havoc : raw footage]

Title: [Interview with June Havoc : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.
Publication: [Wilton, Conn.,], 1999.

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1 videocassette (VHS) (75 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. Actress, dancer, writer and theater director June Havoc discusses her career. Topics include the "meaning" of Broadway to aspiring performers; current corporate influence on Broadway; her singing part in the Cole Porter musical Mexican hayride; the multiculturalism of Vaudeville and its audience; the musical as an expression of America; her experience as a child performer in Vaudeville, and her headlining performances as Baby June; the Depression and its impact on Vaudeville; her work during the Depression, including dancing in dance marathons; her tryouts and role in the musical Pal Joey, and views on writer John O'Hara, composers Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and director George Abbott; World War II and the theater; auditioning for George M. Cohan; the performer's dedication to performing as embodied in the phrase "the show must go on", and how she copes with injuries; the death of a musician during a performance of Mexican hayride; composer Cole Porter and the personal impact of his riding accident; her stage fright; the opening night of the musical Pal Joey and audience response to its "anti-hero". Interview concludes with 10 minutes of audio commentary by Havoc, concerning a performance of hers she watches on videotape.

Alternative Title

Broadway, the American musical
Broadway the American musical : June Havoc interview.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Documentaries and factual works.
Musicals.
Unedited footage.

Note

This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
Time code on frame.
Contains various takes; at occasional, brief intervals the audio continues without image.

Credits (note)

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer (note)

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: June Havoc.

Event (note)

Videotaped at June Havoc's residence in Wilton, Conn. on February 22, 1999.

Biography (note)

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Call Number

NCOX 2109

OCLC

105261854

Title

[Interview with June Havoc : raw footage] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.

Imprint

[Wilton, Conn.,], 1999.

Credits

Cameraman: Buddy Squires.

Performer

Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: June Havoc.

Event

Videotaped at June Havoc's residence in Wilton, Conn. on February 22, 1999.

Biography

Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Local Note

Gift of Broadway Film Project, Inc. and Thirteen/WNET, 2005.

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Added Author

Havoc, June, interviewee.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.

Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.

Squires, Buddy, cameraman.

Ghost Light Films.

Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.

Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research Call Number

NCOX 2109

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