Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Spaulding, George, 1881-1959
- Abstract:
- George Spaulding (1881-1959) was a screen, stage, radio, and television actor, as well as a stage producer and playwright. The collection consists of theater programs, mementos, and a scrapbook relating to the Spaulding's acting career.
- Extent:
- 1 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize container)
- Language:
- English and Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], George Spaulding Papers (Collection 770). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of theater programs, mementos, and a scrapbook relating to the career of actor George Spaulding. It also includes correspondence and photographs of actor Walter Huston and his wife; advertisements featuring Spaulding; a certificate of thanks and photograph for participation in the 1940 World's Fair; Spaulding's biographical information; Vaudeville clippings; and still of Spaulding and Jackie Gleason in Follow the Girls.
- Biographical / historical:
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Spaulding was born in 1881; became a screen, stage, radio, and television actor, as well as a stage producer and playwright; appeared in the following films: Chinese ring (1947), White heat (1949), House of strangers (1949), Kiss tomorrow goodbye (1949), When Willie comes marching home (1950), Jim Thorpe--All American (1951), Lure of the wilderness (1952), The President's lady (1953), and Woman's world (1954); he died on August 23, 1959 in Hollywood, California.
- Processing information:
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Description derived from in-house card file.
- 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.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], George Spaulding Papers (Collection 770). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988