05443cpcaa2200877 4500 mm 75052142 DLC 20260227111616.0 cr ||||||||||| 751124|||||||||||| eng mm 75052142 ms 77001586 DLC dacs DLC DLC L lcmd Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972. Margaret Webster papers, 1837-1974 (bulk 1937-1970). 7,000 items. 28 containers. 11 linear feet. Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1837-1969; Series 2: Professional File, 1917-1971; Series 3: Speeches and Writings File, 1886-1974; and Series 4: Scrapbooks and Notebooks, 1929-1959. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Correspondence, lectures, articles, prompt copies of plays and operas, musical scores, set and staging diagrams, research materials, family papers, scrapbooks of clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers consisting primarily of material used by Webster in compiling two family biographies and reflecting her career in American theater. Documents her involvement with Eva Le Gallienne and Cheryl Crawford in the American Repertory Theater in New York, N.Y., and her interest in experimental theater with Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company (also known as Marweb Productions). Also documents Webster's service as a U.S. State Dept. specialist in South Africa. Family papers relate chiefly to the professional careers of her parents, Benjamin Webster and Dame May Whitty, on the British stage, and include genealogical material for the Webster and Whitty families. Subjects include theater in Great Britain, South Africa, and the United States; the Actors' Equity Association; ANTA (American National Theatre and Academy; apartheid; and blacklisting. Includes drafts and related material for Webster's family biographies, The Same Only Different; Five Generations of a Great Theatre Family (1969) and Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage (1972), and notes for her technical work Shakespeare without Tears (1942). Playwrights represented include Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder, and Tennessee Williams. Correspondents include Brooks Atkinson, Marlon Brando, Noel Coward, Lynn Fontanne, Graham Greene, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, Bernard Shaw, Walter Slezak, Dame Sybil Thorndike, and Alexander Woollcott. Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Actress, theatrical producer, author, and lecturer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150 Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984 Correspondence. Brando, Marlon Correspondence. Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904. Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 Correspondence. Crawford, Cheryl, 1902-1986. Fontanne, Lynn Correspondence. Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 Correspondence. Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906. Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991. Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991 Correspondence. Lunt, Alfred Correspondence. O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950 Correspondence. Slezak, Walter, 1902-1983 Correspondence. Thorndike, Sybil, Dame, 1882-1976 Correspondence. Webster, Benjamin, 1864-1947. Whitty, May, Dame, 1865-1948. Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975. Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Woollcott, Alexander, 1887-1943 Correspondence. Webster family. Whitty family. United States. Department of State. Actors' Equity Association. American Repertory Theater (New York, N.Y.) ANTA (Organization) Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company. Apartheid. Blacklisting of entertainers. Experimental theater. Theater. Theater Production and direction. Theater Great Britain. Theater New York (State) New York. Theater South Africa. Theater United States. Actresses. itoamc Authors. itoamc Lecturers. itoamc Theatrical producers. itoamc Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972. Don't put your daughter on the stage. 1972. Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972. The same only different; five generations of a great theatre family. 1969. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011150.3 39375 39375