Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936-
2. Haskins, Susan
3. Hoffman, Patrick
4. Parker/Hodges Productions
5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

Description

1. 1 streaming video file (67 min.) : sound, color.

Summary

1. Louise Kerz Hirschfeld Cullman, who has been affiliated with the performing arts as a researcher and curator, and in other capacities as well, discusses her life with interviewer Susan Haskins. The interview begins with a discussion of her late husband, the artist Al Hirschfeld, and an examination of his drawing desk, chair, and tools. Subsequent topics include Cullman's early efforts to become an actress; her marriage to theater producer and designer Leo Kerz, and their life together; and her work as a cultural historian, through acting as a research consultant for television documentaries and museum exhibits devoted to prominent personalities in the arts. She tells how she first knew Al Hirschfeld and his wife Dolly Haas as hosts of dinner parties she would attend with her husband Kerz, and discusses her eventual marriage to Hirschfeld after both had been widowed. After his death in 2003, she would marry philantropist Lewis B. Cullman, who died at age 100 in 2019. She concludes by discussing various ways she has maintained Al Hirschfeld's artistic legacy.

Alternative title

1. Louise Hirschfeld interview

Subject

1. Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- -- Interviews
2. Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- -- Friends and associates
3. Hirschfeld, Al
4. Hirschfeld, Al -- Marriage
5. Hirschfeld, Al -- Friends and associates
6. Kerz, Leo -- Marriage
7. Cullman, Lewis B., 1919-2019 -- Marriage
8. Caricature -- United States
9. Cartoonists -- United States
10. Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York
11. Theater -- New York (State) -- New York

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 435

Language

1. English

Note

1. Title from opening credits.
2. This interview can be accessed via physical media (DVD) in the screening room of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive: call number NCOW 435.

Access (note)

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., October 7, 2021.

Source (note)

1. O#PAMI;

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. Interview with Louise Kerz Hirschfeld / conducted by Susan Haskins ; October 7, 2021 ; at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. ; [video production company] Parker/Hodges Productions ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Production

1. New York: Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, [2021]

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. spoken word
2. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Digital file characteristics

1. video file

Access

1. Restricted to qualified researchers.

Event

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., October 7, 2021.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- interviewee.
2. Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
3. Hoffman, Patrick.
4. Parker/Hodges Productions.
5. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Other form:

1. digital transfer of (videodisc): 1 videodisc ; 4 3/4 in. (OCoLC) b226992275 Interview with Louise Kerz Hirschfeld. New York:2021

Research call number

1. NCOW 435