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Newspaper Cuttings scrapbook

Description

A scrapbook of newspaper and magazine clippings of Hollywood movies, actors, and actresses; it also contains Christopher Isherwood's autograph notes and reviews of the movies included in the scrapbook.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1922-1924
Call number
CI 4759
Creator
Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Acquired as a gift and purchase from Don Bachardy, April 1999, July 2000, June 2012, and May 2020.
purchased from Wayne Shimabukuro, June 1999.
gift of Robin French, August 1999.
purchased from Stanley P. Friedman, September 1999.
purchased from Roland Jaeger, from estate of Dodie Smith, May 2000 and June 2002.
purchased for the Huntington Library by the Library Collectors' Council Romaine Ahlstrom, March 2003.
gift of James Cummins Bookseller, April 2003.
purchased from Michael Silverman Autographs, London, December 2003.
purchased from December 2003.
Associated people
Auden, W. H. (1907-1973.)
Bachardy, Don, (1934-)
Britten, Benjamin, (1913-1976.)
Bradbury, Ray, (1920-2012.)
Bradshaw-Isherwood, Frank. (1868-1960.)
Bradshaw-Isherwood, Kathleen, (1924-1984.)
Capote, Truman, (1945-1988.)
Clodd, Alan. (1879-1970.)
Divine, (1950-approximately 1990.)
Forster, E. M. (1904-2000.)
Gates, Jim, (1904-1991.)
Gielgud, John, (1889-1971.)
Greene, Graham, (1894-1963.)
Harris, Julie. (1907-1996.)
Heard, Gerald, (1907-1987.)
Hockney, David. (1874-1965.)
Huxley, Aldous, (1903-1973.)
Huxley, Laura Archera. (1893-1976.)
Huxley, Maria. (1919-2010.)
Kirstein, Lincoln, (1896-1990.)
Lehmann, John, (1909-1995.)
Maley, Ken. (1882-1971.)
Maugham, W. Somerset (1925-2012.)
Plomer, William, (1907-1981.)
Prabhavananda, (1901-1987.)
Salinger, J. D. (1911-1983.)
Smith, Dodie,
Spender, Stephen,
Stravinsky, Igor,
Stravinsky, Vera.
Upward, Edward.
Vidal, Gore,
Viertel, Berthold.
Weissberger, L. Arnold,
Wescott, Glenway,
Williams, Tennessee,
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