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Summary Information
Edward Choate Papers
1923-1973
- Choate, Edward, 1908-1975
U.S. Mss 108AN; Micro 470; Micro 624; Tape 507A
4.2 c.f. (11 archives boxes), 3 tape recordings, and 2 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research Contact Information
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of a theatrical producer and theater manager mainly consisting of scripts, correspondence, contracts, advertising, microfilmed clipping scrapbooks, photographs, and financial records of plays produced or considered for production. Of these, files on Decision (1944), Juno and the Paycock (1940), Kindred (1939), and Miss Liberty (1949) are most notable. Several boxes of correspondence, contracts and booking files, publicity, annotated scripts, production information, and company journals concern the Margaret Webster companies of which Choate was business manager and partner. Related material added by David Fennema consists of research correspondence, interviews with members of the Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company, and a microfilm copy of some Webster Papers at the New York Public Library. There is also a group of correspondence, financial records, and a magazine article concerning Choate's experiences with the Old Vic Theatre. Prominent correspondents scattered through the professional papers include Barry Fitzgerald, Moss Hart, Robert Edmond Jones, Elia Kazan, Alfred Lunt, Burgess Meredith, Sir Laurence Olivier, and Geraldine Page. Additional personal correspondence, 1938-1953, with Irish playwright John Vincent Carroll and co-producer Arthur Shields contains many references to productions on which they collaborated. Personal papers include general letters, contracts, miscellaneous biographical records, a scrapbook concerning his eulogy of S. N. Behrman, and papers of two groups of which he was an officer: the Independent Citizens committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions and the Stop Censorship Committee. The folder on the censorship committee includes a tape of a 1948 meeting at which Florence Eldridge, Jose Ferrer, Moss Hart, Albert Maltz, Burgess Meredith, and Margaret Webster spoke.
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