Hollywood Museum collection, 1899-1970, bulk 1910s-1950s

Summary

Creators:

Hollywood Museum

Extent:

71 linear feet of papers. 76 linear feet of photographs.

Language:

English

Background

Scope and content:

The Hollywood Museum collection spans the years 1899-1970 (bulk 1910s-1950s) and encompasses 147 linear feet. The collection contains a wide variety of material donated to the Hollywood Museum between 1960 and 1967, including clippings, scrapbooks, photograph albums, programs, casting directories, catalogs, books, magazines, and scripts. In addition, there is a small amount of correspondence, lobby cards, posters, costume design drawings, artifacts, and sheet music. Those individuals represented by more extensive papers include technical director Rudolph Bylek, writer Myrtle Gebhart, producer David Horsley, and producer Jesse L. Lasky. There are 150 scrapbooks, including those of director Herbert Brenon, Rudolph Bylek, Myrtle Gebhart, director Henry King, producer Carl Laemmle Sr., producer Carl Laemmle Jr., Jesse L. Lasky, actor Robert Emmett O'Connor, director Sidney Olcott, and actor Charles Ray. There are more than 60 photograph albums, including those of producer Fred Balshofer, actor James Carewe, cinematographer Philip duBois, actor Boyd Irwin, makeup artist Harry Ross, actor Tom Santschi, and actress Evelyn Selbie. The photograph series consists of more than 60,000 photographs.

Biographical / historical:

The Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum, commonly known as the Hollywood Museum, was planned from 1960 to 1965 but was never built. In the 1980s the research material was distributed among the American Film Institute, the University of Southern California, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the Academy.

Acquisition information:

On loan from the City of Los Angeles, 1981

Arrangement:

Arranged in the following series: 1. Subject files; 2. Scrapbooks; 3. Photographs, subseries A-C as follows: A. Motion picture production; B. Biography; C. Subject

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

organization records

Names:

Hollywood Museum

Location of this collection:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library

333 S. La Cienega Blvd

Beverly Hills, CA 90211, US

Contact:

(310) 247-3036 extension 2226

specialcollections@oscars.org

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