Finding Aid for the Rex Evans Papers, ca. 1925-1969
Processed by Dan Luckenbill; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Humanities --Performing Arts --Theater
Social Sciences --Business and Economics
Geographical (By Place) --California --Los Angeles
Area
Finding Aid for the Rex Evans Papers, ca. 1925-1969
Collection number: 1346
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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- Dan Luckenbill, 1985
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Text converted and initial container list EAD tagging by:
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- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, December 2002
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Rex Evans Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1925-1969
Collection number: 1346
Creator:
Evans, Rex, 1903-1969
Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
3 oversize boxes
1 folder
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Rex Evans (1903-1969) appeared in several films, including
Camille (1936) and the
Philadelphia story (1940). The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts of revue sketches, music scores, photographs, portraits, scrapbooks,
and ephemera documenting Evans' career in cabaret, movies, and theater.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Restrictions on Access
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A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of James S. Weatherford, 1985.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Rex Evans Papers (Collection 1346). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Evans was born in 1903; attended Marlborough School, England; cabaret star during 1920s-30s in London, Paris, New York, and
Los Angeles; moved to Los Angeles in the late 1930s and appeared in several films, including
Camille (1936) and the
Philadelphia story (1940); sold antiques with partner Jim Weatherford and ran custom shirt-shop and Rex Evans Gallery in Los Angeles; died in
1969 in Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts of revue sketches, music scores, photographs, portraits, scrapbooks, and
ephemera documenting Evans' career in cabaret, movies, and theater.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Evans, Rex, 1903-1969--Archives.
Entertainers--Archival resources.
Motion picture actors and actresses--Archival resources.
Related Material
- Rex Evans Gallery Records (Collection 2037). Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
- André Charlot Papers (Collection 1318). Available at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.
Letters Received, 1933-1950
Box 1, Folder 1
Telegram from Noël Coward, 1933.
Box 1, Folder 1
Typewritten letter signed from John C. (Jack) Wilson, 1937.
Box 1, Folder 1
Typed note signed from Gertrude Lawrence, n.d.
Box 1, Folder 1
Postcard from Mother Shoppard(?) (Alice Pearce?), n.d.
Box 1, Folder 1
Holiday card from Carol Channing and family (with photograph), n.d.
Box 1, Folder 1
Program autographed by Gladys Cooper,
1968.
Career in Cabaret
Note
(see also Oversize Box 1 and Packages 1-2)
Box 1, Folder 2
Clippings, primarily cabaret, but including London theater,
late 1920s-30s.
Box 1, Folder 3
Photograph of Sophie Tucker and Rex Evans,
1928.
Box 1, Folder 4
Clippings, Club Bali (8804 Sunset, Los Angeles),
late 1930s.
Box 1, Folder 5
Letters sent enclosing copies of lyrics, revue sketches, etc. 1930, 1936-37.
Box 1, Folders 6-8
Copies of lyrics, sketches, holograph music scores, etc.
Career in Movies
Note
(See also Package 2)
Box 1, Folder 9
Clippings, late 1930s-1960s.
Box 1, Folder 10
Clippings,
Camille and
The Philadelphia Story, late 1930s.
Career in Theater
Note
(See also Oversize Box 1 and Packages 1-4)
Lady Windermere's Fan, 1945-46
Box 1, Folder 11
Program.
Physical Description: 2 copies.
Box 1, Folder 12
Photographs by Caskey.
Physical Description: 2 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 15
Photographs; most stamped Will Rapport, one stamped Richard Tucker.
Physical Description: 9 pieces.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1950
Box 1, Folder 17
Photographs by Fred Fehl.
Physical Description: 7 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 18
Photographs by Eileen Darby.
Physical Description: 2 pieces.
Box 1, Folder 19
Photographs by unidentified photographers.
Physical Description: 28 pieces.
Abstract: Includes backstage snapshots and autographed photograph of Yvonne Adair.
Box 1, Folder 21
Program signed by Mel Ferrer (director) and members of the cast: Eva Gabor, Richard Egan, Pat O'Brien, etc.
Miscellaneous Shapshots and Photographs of Rex Evans
Box 1, Folder 23
2? photographs by James de Vries; other photographers unknown.
Box 1, Folder 23
5 photographs and 1 negative.
Box 1, Folder 24
Rex Evans greeting card from Chez Rex (London) and collected theater programs.
Oversize Box 2
Printed popular music (some in French): Carioca, La Chanson de Broadway, etc. 1935.
Oversize Box 2
Photographs of
Lady Windermere's fan, production and cast.
Oversize Box 2
8 photographs stamped [Cecil] Beaton.
Oversize Box 2
1 photograph possibly by Beaton (Beaton, Rex Evans and others on stage).
Oversize Box 2
5 photographs of Rex Evans (copies probably not made by Beaton).
Oversize Box 2
1 mounted, damaged photograph of Isobel Jeans in the London
Lady Windermere's fan by Cecil Beaton.
Oversize Box 2
Caricature of Cornelia Otis Skinner and Estelle Winwood by James House, Jr.
Physical Description: Pen and ink on stiff paper. 30.5 × 29 cm. Signed by the actresses.
Oversize Box 2
Portrait of Rex Evans.
Physical Description: Colored pencil on paper. 36 × 25 cm. Signed: Rex with love, Violet, 19.7.37.
Oversize Box 3
Scrapbook of clippings, primarily cabaret, 1927-33.
Oversize Box 3
Scrapbook of clippings, cabaret, theater, and movies, 1930-36.
Oversize Box 4
Scrapbook of clippings,
Lady Windermere's fan, 1946-48.
Oversize Box 4
Scrapbook of clippings,
Gentlemen prefer blondes, 1950.
Oversize Box 5
Hynes, E. - caricature of Rex Evans and Ethel Baird.
Physical Description: (Pen and ink on paper; matted).