Films, Cinema, & Television: Resources in the Special Collections Research Center

-- Collection of papers concerning actress Glenn Close that document her career as a Broadway, television, and screen success. Includes recorded interviews, clippings, invitations, programs, playbills, videos, and other related materials.

-- This collection consists of the personal papers of Ann Buckles, College of William & Mary class of 1951, and includes materials from her time at William & Mary, her subsequent career on Broadway and in television and film, and her tenure at Harper's Bazaar. There are photographs, video recordings, clippings, correspondence, and materials regarding Benjamin Bray, Glenn Close, and members of the Department of Theatre and Speech. There is also some material from Buckles' later activities upon her return to Williamsburg, Virginia.

-- Papers of Linda Lavin which document her career as a Broadway and television actress, and also as an advocate of women’s rights and equal opportunity. Newspaper clippings, interviews, news releases, and personal letters record her success as a member of Neil Simon’s Broadway play, “Broadway Bound,” for which she received a Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Helen Hayes Award in 1987 as best leading actress. Newsclippings also record her roles as producer and actress in made for television movies “Lena: My Hundred Children,” “A Place to Call Home,” “I Want to go Home,” and “Sea of Terror.”

-- One scrapbook containing newspaper clippings about the fraternity and its members, some correspondence, photographs of the fraternity house, and photographs of members, some of whom were in the movie The Howards of Virginia.

-- The papers of Claudia Stevens, musician, actor, performance artist, playwright, and composer, are arranged by musical theatre works in her repertoire except for Series 23, which is arranged separately and was formerly known as the Carter-Sessions Papers. The papers of Claudia Stevens include video and audio recordings, posters, fliers, brochures, programs, press coverage, newspaper clippings, correspondence, grant applications, musical and literary sketches, musical scores, librettos, scripts, a screenplay, a dissertation, books, film projection slides, photographs, artifacts, and props.

-- Diary of a young American, Charles P. Ward, who lived in Brazil from March to July, 1936. January 7, 1938 Daily News article on Pierce Ward who has entered the boxing Golden Gloves competition. Describes Ward as “former all-around athlete who gained experience by knocking around the globe as beach-comber, pilot and movie extra.” Gives a short history of his experiences: arrested in Santos, Brazil for fighting, outstanding athlete in high school, Hollywood movie extra, worker on a Panama River Coffee Plantation and a pilot.