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    <title>Sam Jaffe papers, 1915-1991 (bulk 1925-1984)</title>
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    <namePart>Jaffe, Sam</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1891-1984</namePart>
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    <extent>1,175</extent>
    <extent>4</extent>
    <extent>1.6</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating to Jaffe's career as an actor and his personal life including his experience as a blacklisted actor in the 1950s.  Subjects include Jaffe's lifelong friendship with Edward G. Robinson, an account of rehearsing a play with Max Reinhardt, an analysis of William Shakespeare's character Shylock, the Equity Library Theatre, and the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities.  Correspondents include Bettye Ackerman, James Cagney, James T. Farrell, John Garfield, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Philip Loeb, Ferenc Molnár, Zero Mostel, Erwin Piscator, Max Reinhardt, Edward G. Robinson, Ezra Stone, and Lillian Taiz.</abstract>
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  <note>Actor.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ackerman, Bettye</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1924-2006</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cagney, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1899-1986</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Farrell, James T. (James Thomas)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1979</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garfield, John</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gershwin, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1898-1937</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gershwin, Ira</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1896-1983</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Huston, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1906-1987</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Kazan, Elia</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Loeb, Philip</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1894-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Molnár, Ferenc</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1878-1952</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mostel, Zero</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1915-1977</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Piscator, Erwin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1966</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Reinhardt, Max</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1943</namePart>
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      <namePart>Reinhardt, Max</namePart>
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      <namePart>Robinson, Edward G</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1973</namePart>
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      <namePart>Robinson, Edward G</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1893-1973</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stone, Ezra</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1917-</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Taiz, Lillian</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1941</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
      <namePart>House.</namePart>
      <namePart>Committee on Un-American Activities.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Equity Library Theatre (New York, N.Y.)</namePart>
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    <topic>Acting</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Blacklisting of entertainers</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Motion picture acting</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Shylock (Fictitious character)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Television acting</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theater rehearsals</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <occupation>Actors</occupation>
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