Finding Aid for the Vanessa Brown Papers, ca. 1950-1988 LSC.1552

Finding aid prepared by Caroline Cubé, 2002.
UCLA Library Special Collections
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Vanessa Brown papers
Creator: Brown, Vanessa
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1552
Physical Description: 7.8 Linear Feet (5 boxes; 6 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1948-1991
Abstract: Vanessa Brown (1928-1999) was born in Vienna, Austria. She appeared in Broadway plays and films. In 1962, she became a writer-coordinator for the Voice of America. The collection contains books, scrapbooks, writings by Brown, and audio recordings.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

Restrictions on Access

Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

COLLECTION CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this collection will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.

Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Gift of Vanessa Brown, 1988-90.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Vanessa Brown Papers (Collection 1552). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 997094983606533 

Biography

Brown was born on March 24, 1928 in Vienna, Austria; came to the U.S. in 1938; BA, UCLA, 1949; appeared in Broadway plays, As you Like it (1950) and The Seven Year Itch (1952-54); appeared in films, including Youth Runs Wild (1941), The Heiress (1948), and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); married Mark R. Sandrich, 1959; became writer-coordinator for Voice of America in 1962; correspondent with Los Angeles Times Service, 1970-74, and National Public Radio, 1973-74; writer, KTLA-TV, 1972-74; worked for presidential campaigns of Adlai Stevenson, 1956, and John F. Kennedy, 1960; artist with one-woman show at Edgardo Costa Gallery, Beverly Hills, California; founder, American Acting Company. She died on May 21, 1999 in Los Angeles.

Scope and Content

The collection contains bibliographical reference works and other books in which Vanessa Brown is mentioned. Also includes scrapbooks, writings by Brown, and audio tapes of Voice of America broadcasts.

Organization and Arrangement

The material is in the order determined by the previous archivist.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Actors -- United States -- Archives
Motion picture actors and actresses -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Women radio writers -- United States -- Archives.
Brown, Vanessa, 1928- --Archives.

box 1

His Way: The Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra. by Kitty Kelley (Toronto: Bantam Books) 1986

box 1

Murrow: His Life And Times by A.M. Sperber (New York: Freundlich Books) [inscribed by author] 1986

box 1

The Papers Of Adlai E. Stevenson. vol.6., edited by Walter Johnson (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company) 1976

box 1

The Theatre In The Fifties by George Jean Nathan (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) 1953

box 1

Whatever Happened To The Quiz Kids? by Ruth Duskin Feldman (Chicago: Chicago Review Press) [inscribed by author] 1982

box 1

Periodical Cosmopolitan March 1953

box 1

Photocopies of published biographical references to Vanessa Brown 1962-1978

box 1

Correspondence 1950-1962

box 2

Cassette tapes of classes 1979-1980

Scope and Content

Forty audio cassettes marked with dates and times of classes, the nature of which is unknown.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

FILE CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this file will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.
box 3

Scrapbook 1949-1950

box 3

Scrapbook 1953-1954

box 3

Vanessa Brown Productions 1984

Scope and Content

U-matic videocassette "What To Be: a medley of six programs."

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

FILE CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this file will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.
box 4

Scrapbook 1948-1953

Scope and Content

Includes clippings and programs for a touring production of As You Like It starring Katharine Hepburn.
box 5

Scrapbook 1952-1953

box 6

Scrapbook 1955-1956

box 7

Voice of America 1962-1969

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

BOX CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this box will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.

Scope and Content

Contains: list of radio reports and interviews by Vanessa Brown; thirteen reel-to-reel tapes; interviewees include Robert Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, and Billy Wilder.
box 8

Voice of America 1960-1969

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

BOX CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this box will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.

Scope and Content

Contains fifteen reel-to-reel tapes; interviewees and topics include Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, and Marietta Tree.
box 9

Voice of America 1961-1969

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

BOX CONTAINS AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Audiovisual materials in this box will require assessment and possible digitization for safe access. To review these audiovisual materials, you must notify the UCLA Library Special Collections Reference Desk in advance of your visit.

Scope and Content

Contains fourteen reel-to-reel tapes; interviewees include Walter Reuther and Adlai Stevenson.
box 10, folder 1

"The Voice of America -- Where It Stands" [speech by Vanessa Brown] 1978

box 10, folder 2

"Honesty?" [short play by Vanessa Brown] 1983

box 10, folder 3

Credits circa 1955

box 10, folder 4

What Do You Want To Be Tomorrow? [career-guidance workshop] 1988-1990

box 10, folder 5

In My Father's House [manuscript by Vanessa Brown] 1975-1987

box 10, folder 6

Vanessa Brown Productions 1978-1991

box 10, folder 7

Vocal Selections from Ben Franklin in Paris by Mark Sandrich, Jr. and Sidney Michaels [photocopy] 1965

box 11

Photographs and drawings 1953-1990

Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of photographs, drawings by Brown, pin-up from Esquire, Life, March 9, 1953 [with Brown on cover].