Finding Aid for the Maria Ouspenskaya Papers, ca. 1922-1942
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Maria Ouspenskaya Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1922-1942
Collection number: 646
Creator: Ouspenskaya, Maria, 1876-1949
Extent:
8 boxes (4 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Abstract: Maria Ouspenskaya (1876-1949) performed on Broadway and ran a New York acting school before going to Hollywood, California
(1936). The collection consists of scripts, reviews, publicity material, and photographs related to Maria Ouspenskaya and
her acting career, the Moscow Art Theater, and the Greenwich Village Theater in New York.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary 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.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Elizabeth C. McKeen, 1952.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Maria Ouspenskaya Papers (Collection 646). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography
Ouspenskaya was born July 29, 1876 in Tula, Russia; she came to the U.S. in 1923 with the Moscow Art Theater; performed on
Broadway and ran a New York acting school before going to Hollywood, California, in 1936; films include:
Dodsworth (1936),
Conquest (1937),
Love affair (1939),
Dr. Ehrlich's magic bullet (1940),
The wolf man (1941),
Kings row (1942),
Frankenstein meets the wolf man (1943),
I've always loved you (1946), and
A kiss in the dark (1949); she died in 1949.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of scripts, reviews, publicity material, and photographs related to Maria Ouspenskaya and her acting career.
Also includes materials from when she was a member of the Moscow Art Theater and the Greenwich Village Theater in New York.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 1876-1949--Archives.
Motion picture actors and actresses--Archival resources.
Acting teachers--United States--Archival resources.
Genres and Forms of Material
Scripts (documents).
Note
The Maria Ouspenskaya papers consist of scripts for drams and motion pictures in which Maria Ouspenskaya appeared, notices,
reviews, publicity material and photographs of various scenes, chiefly the motion pictures
Kings Row and
Dodsworth. There is material relating to the period in her career when she was a member of the Moscow Art Theater and the Greenwich
Village Theater in New York.
Boxes 1-2
Moving picture scripts.
1933-1942
Box 3
Scripts of motion pictures and plays.
n.d.
Boxes 4-8
Notices, reviews, publicity material and photographs.
