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Description
The Westchester Playhouse in Mount Kisco, New York (1932-1940) was one of the first prominent summer stock theaters in the United States. One of the founders was Frank Day Tuttle.
Names
Westchester Playhouse (Creator)
Bloomer, Kenneth (Photographer)
Tuttle, Frank Day
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1932 - 1940
Library locations
Billy Rose Theatre Division
Shelf locator: *T-Vim 2012-072
Topics
Westchester Playhouse (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Biographical/historical: The Westchester Playhouse in Mount Kisco, New York (1932 - 1940) was one of the first prominent summer stock theaters in the United States. It helped launch the careers of many successful actors, including Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Anna May Wong, Jose Ferrer, Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof and Frances Farmer. Frank Day Tuttle (1902-1989), was one of the founding directors. The play Margin for Error by Clare Booth Luce was the 105th production and the last show produced by Tuttle and Richard Skinner at the Westchester Playhouse. After the Westchester Playhouse closed, Tuttle had a long career in theater and radio.
Content: The collection contains negatives of shows produced by the Westchester Playhouse. Original photographs were taken by Kenneth Bloomer. The negatives in the collection were used for an un-published book, written by Tuttle circa 1974, about summer stock theater in the early 20th Century. Each group of negatives is housed in envelopes that have production title, date of performance, list of performers and other production notes.
Physical Description
Extent: 2.52 linear feet (6 boxes)
Negatives
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
Other local Identifier: *T-Vim 2012-072
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19964357
MSS Unit ID: 18972
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4bfe9050-df1b-013c-1de0-0242ac110003
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