Finding Aid to the Ed Menerth Papers Coll2014.050
Michael C. Oliveira
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Title: Ed Menerth papers
creator:
Menerth, Ed (Edward Franklin)
Identifier/Call Number: Coll2014.050
Physical Description:
2.0 Linear Feet
1 archives box, 2 archives cartons.
Date (inclusive): 1942-1998
Abstract: Photographs, coded notes on erotic films, correspondence, and diaries, 1942-1998 of acting and vocal coach, Ed Menerth. Menerth
attended Pennsylvania State University and was an acting coach at the University of Miami. He continued his acting and vocal
coaching in West Hollywood, California, where he was a literary agent for Dale Garrick International.
Language of Material: English
The materials Menerth collected and placed in numbered binders preceed his papers and photographs arranged in chronological
order.
Series 1: Binders
Series 2: Papers and photographs
One of Menerth's diaries lists his home address as Mountainside, New Jersey which corresponds to the issuing state of his
Social Security number. He served in the United States Army Signal Corp in 1944. He earned his master's degree from Pennsylvania
State University and by 1953 worked in the drama department at the University of Miami. In 1971 his book,
Singing in style: A guide to performance techniques of vocal literature from the Middle Ages to the present day was published. By the mid-1970s he had relocated to West Hollywood, California, where he continued his acting and voice
coaching. During this time he also was a literary agent with the Dale Garrick International Agency. And in the mid-to-late
1970s he reviewed books and motion pictures for
Drummer magazine, using the pseudonym Ed Franklin. Menerth died in 2001..
Sources:
Ed Menerth Papers, Coll2014-050, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern California.
Fritscher, Jack. "The Academy: Incarceration for Pleasure," Drummer 145, December 1990, (as found in Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness
Drummer Magazine, at www.JackFritscher.com)
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access restrictions.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the ONE Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries 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.
Immediate Source of Acquistion
The Ed Menerth papers were a gift of the attorney for estate of Ed Menerth in 2001.
Shawn, Ted, 1891-1972. Ted Shawn Collection, (S) *MGZMC-Res. 31, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts.
The Ted Shawn Papers, (S)*MGZMD 133, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Reflections on Directing a Thespian Show by Ed Menerth, 1952. Penn State Thespians Records (1409), Penn State University Archives,
Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University.
[Box #, Folder#], Ed Menerth Papers, Coll2014-050, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California.
Collection processed by Robert Graves, Patrick Mansfield and Michael C. Oliveira, August 2014.
The collection, 1942-1998, primarily consists of headshots, coded notes on erotic videos, and Polariods of nude actors. The
collection also includes limited correspondence, personal photographs, and two multi-year diaries.
Separted to ONE catalog collection:
1992 KW Enterprises Bondage Products Catalog.
RoB Amsterdam catalog, copyright 1988.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Diaries
Gays -- Correspondence
Photographs
Gay erotic photography
Menerth, Ed (Edward Franklin)
Box 1, folder 1-24
Binder documents 1977-1998
Physical Description: 24 Files
Box 2, folder 1
Diaries 1942-1946, 1949-1953
Box 2, Folder 2
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence 1972-1992
Box 2, Folder 6-17
Headshots (actors) 1974-1977, undated
Box 3, folder 1-2
Erotic photographs 1955-1993, undated
Physical Description: 2 Filesnegatives, contact sheets, photographic prints, and slides
Includes images of James (Mike), Lance (David Reis), Mandingo, Chris Allen, the Christy Twins (Dyer Twins), Trenton Comeaux,
Duff Paxton, Randy Ranger (Randy Grossnickle), and Clyde Dayton Wallace.
Box 3, Folder 3-7
Palace of Pleasure (Marathon Films) 1980
Physical Description: 5 foldersnegatives, contact sheets, photographic prints, and slides
Includes scene stills from the
Palace of Pleasures including
The Boxer, the Trainer, the Biker with Jason Onassis, Ted Adams, and Vic Bruno;
Fooling Around with Jeremy Scott and David Scott;
Hot Tubs with Shaun Victors and Jon Conrad;
Lifeguard and Surfers with J.W. King and Tim Christy;
Tenderfoot and the Cowboy with Jack Wrangler and Jim Rodgers.
Box 3, folder 8
Box 3, folder 9
Box 2, Folder 4
Box 3
Headshots and publicity stills undated
Physical Description: 20 Photographic Prints
Includes images of models represented by Dale Garrick International Agency and others including David Dybstra, Tom Fielding,
Tom & Steve Fern, Bod Fuller, James Houghton, Don Johnson, Rick Juarez, Jim Mahoney, Michael Monroe, John Mooney, Bruce Morgan,
Sonny Padilla, Junior, Jon Pearson, Eric Thompson, and Gary Toy.