Visual Materials

Programs, song sheets, and scores

Description: Consists of song sheets and scores for: "Midnight Maid" (copyright 1919); "My Girl is Like a Rainbow" (copyright 1922); "Pollyanna (The Glad Girl)" (copyright 1920); "My Sweetie's Smile" (copyright 1920); "Happy My Baby Just Said 'Yes'" (copyright 1928); and "Hollywood Suite" by Ferde Grofe (copyright 1938). As well, there is the July 21, 1928, issue of Newsette and a promotional publication for the Marcel Silver's Hollywood Ballet (1936).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1919-1938
Call number: photCL 487
Creator: Fanchon & Marco(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sandra Holden and William H. Simon, Jr., July 2008.; gift of Faye Hueston, 2013.; gift of Sandra Holden, January 2023.
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Baby Songs

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The Fanchon & Marco collection contains approximately 1400 photographs depicting hundreds of Fanchon and Marco Inc. sets and performers between approximately 1925 and 1938. The collection also includes three boxes of ephemera, dated from around 1912 to 1940, that consist of newspapers clippings, musical scores, miscellaneous photographs, and the supplemental press books that were included with Fanchon & Marco's promotional magazine, Now (later The Idea), dating from 1930 and 1931. The 16 volumes (now disbound) of photographs in this collection served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco sets and performers. The images document the actors, dancers, costumes, sets, and concepts and appear to have been primarily photographed during rehearsals before the shows premiered in Los Angeles theaters such as Loew's State Theater and the Paramount Theater. The first volume contains some photographs presumably taken in San Francisco and later volumes include a few photographs by New York-based photographers. Photographers represented in the collection are: Archer's Art Shop of Los Angeles; Hollywood photographers Irving Archer; Archer's Studios; Curt Fox; Paralta Studios; and Harry Wenger. A few photographs include the imprints of Peerless Photo of Los Angeles, John Sirgio, H.W. Steward of San Francisco, Talbot of New York, Weaver of Los Angeles, and White Studio of New York.

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Fanchon & Marco, Volume 12

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87 album pages, each containing an 8 x 10-inch photograph depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed around 1932. Some of the photographs include imprints for Irving Archer of Hollywood, California and Talbot of New York (on the "Girl Trouble" images). The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 12 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.

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