This collection contains one 16mm film reel composed of 10 black and white home movies of Converse M. Converse with his friends and family including footage of California, the East Coast of the United States, and internationally.

The affluent Converse family lived primarily on the East Coast of the United States and often vacationed in Southern California. By the late 1930s, most of the immediate family was living in the Central Coast of California including Santa Barbara and Montecito. Converse M. Converse (C.M.) was born in 1901, the son of Antoinette MacDonough Converse (1880-1936) and Walter Cooledge Morrill (1878-1940). His first marriage was to Marion Josephine McCall in 1922-1930. His second marriage was to Swedish actress Alexa Engström (1899-1984). Family members include his grandfather Edmund Cogswell Converse, Sr. (1849-1921), a prominent banker and business leader in New York with leadership roles in the National Tube Company and the United States Steel Corporation in the early to mid 1900s; his uncle E.C. Converse, Jr., who owned a cattle ranch in Santa Paula, California in the 1920s; his brother, George Peabody Morrill Converse (1902-1963); George's wives Olivia Poole Long, actress Anita Stewart, and Dorothy Knight; and his mother's third husband, actor Richard Wayne. C.M. Converse died at age 74 in Santa Barbara, California and is buried in the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

0.1 Linear Feet (1 16mm film reel)

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