Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Frank Mitchell papers,
- Dates:
- ca. 1920s-ca. 1980s
- Creators:
- Mitchell, Frank.
- Abstract:
- Frank Mitchell was a vaudeville and film actor. The collection consists clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, business contracts and agreements, correspondence, souvenir programs, awards, and ephemera.
- Extent:
- 2 boxes (1 linear ft.) 1 flat box
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Frank Mitchell papers (Collection 279). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of material related to the career of actor Frank Mitchell. Includes clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, business records, souvenir programs, and ephemera. Also includes sketches for Mitchell and Durant. The scrapbooks and clippings cover both Mitchell's individual career and his association with and Jack Durant. Photographs include personal snapshots and motion pictures stills including Lone Star Vigilantes (1934) and North of the Rockies (1942).
- Biographical / historical:
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Mitchell Freundlich was born in NY, NY on May 13, 1905. As a child he trained with the acrobatic team of the Novello Brothers. He began his career in vaudeville with Sim Moore, as Moore and Mitchell, performing acrobatic comics around the country (1924-25). Mitchell married a well-known singer in Chicago, Jeane Fields (ca. 1924). He headlined his next partner, Jack Durant, at the London Palladium (1929). The two appeared on Broadway in George White's comedy series of sketches Scandals and Earl Carroll's Vanities (1932-33). The team went on to appear in films including 365 Nights in Hollywood (1934), and She Learned About Sailors (1934). Mitchell appeared in numerous western films, often appearing as Canonball, the sidekick to Tex Ritter and Bill Elliott (1930s-40s). He performed in U.S.O Tours during WWII and enjoyed a television career including a recurring role in the television series Wagon Train (1960s). Mitchell received an honorary plaque for his roles in western films at the 1990 Golden Boot Awards. He died of a cardiac arrest in North Hollywood, CA on January 21, 1991.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of B. Clouid, 1993.
- Arrangement:
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Arranged in the following series:
- Business Files
- Clippings
- Memorabilia
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Script Material
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Physical description:
- and
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from database containing container list structure and data, encoding added via MS Access and Notetab Pro; frontmatter gathered from MARC Record. Date of source: 011104.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections. The library can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish or quote must be submitted in writing to the Special Collections Librarian, Performing Arts Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Frank Mitchell papers (Collection 279). Performing Arts Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988