Alice Denham collection, 1895-1973, bulk 1950s-1960s

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Summary

Creators:
Denham, Alice
Abstract:
Photographs (contact sheets, portraits, snapshots, slides, negatives), clippings and scrapbooks, calendars and ledgers, notes, and biographical and personal items of actress, model and novelist, Alice Denham (1927-2016). The bulk of the collections dates from the 1950s through the 1960s.
Extent:
2.67 Linear Feet (3 document boxes, 1 flat box, 1 shoebox)
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Alice Denham collection, FMST Mss 18. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises photographs (contact sheets, portraits, snapshots, slides, negatives), clippings, notes, and biographical and personal items from the life of Alice Denham (1927-2016). While the bulk of the collection dates from the 1950s through the 1960s, early personal and family photographs date as far back as 1895. Photographs include snapshots, as well as prints and slides from Denham's modeling and advertising portfolios. Material also includes a personal calendar, modeling and writing ledgers, bookings, brochures and teaching schedules, as well as clippings, scrapbooks, and costume lingerie.

Biographical / historical:

Alice Denham (1927-2016), author, adjunct professor of English at the City University of New York, and model, was born in Jacksonville, Fla. She graduated from the University of North Carolina (B.A., 1949) and the University of Rochester (M.A., 1950). Denham moved to New York City where she modeled for advertisements and industrial shows, camera clubs, and for romance and detective magazines, paperback covers, comic strips, and movie posters. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the July 1956 issue. Denham published numerous novels, articles, television and movie adaptations, and short stories, among them "The Deal," first published in 1955 and again in 1956 in Playboy Magazine, and filmed in 1988. Her first novel, My Darling from the Lions, was published in 1967. Other works include Amo (1974), Secrets of San Miguel (2013), and her memoir Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-All of Literary New York in the Fifties and Sixties (2006). An actress, Denham is known for her performances in Olga's House of Shame (1964), She Should Have Stayed in Bed (1963) and Olga's Girls (1964). Denham died in 2016, at the age of 89.

Acquisition information:
Library purchase, 2024.
Physical location:
Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.

All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of Item], Alice Denham collection, FMST Mss 18. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
UC Santa Barbara Library
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, US
Contact:
(805) 893-3062
special@library.ucsb.edu
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