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  • Contributing Institution: USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
    Title: Les Norvos photographs
    Creator: Norvos, Les
    Identifier/Call Number: 2491
    Physical Description: 0.21 Linear Feet 1 box
    Date (inclusive): c. 1935-1940
    Abstract: Collection consists of black and white headshots and other photographs of Hollywood actors and producers belonging to former USC professor Les Norvos.
    Language of Material: English.
    Container: 1

    Biographical / Historical

    Les Norvos was a film professor at the University of Southern California in the 1950s. His courses focused on cinematic storytelling based on Sergei Eisenstein and Slavko Vorkapich's ideas of movement, editing, and montage.

    Scope and Contents

    Collection consists of black and white headshots and other photographs of Hollywood actors and producers belonging to former USC professor Les Norvos. Collection includes photographs of producer Milton H. Bren and his wife Marion Newbert, actor Richard Barthelmess, and actresses Betty Grabel, Irene Dunne, and Constance Moore, among others.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Advance notice required for access.

    Rights Statement for Archival Description

    Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

    Conditions Governing Use

    All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

    Preferred Citation

    [Box/folder no. or item name], Les Norvos photographs, Collection no. 2491, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.

    Processing Information

    Collection is unprocessed.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Actors -- Photographs
    Actresses -- Photographs
    Motion picture producers and directors -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
    Norvos, Les -- Archives