Research Catalog
Cecile Dixon scrapbook
- Title
- Cecile Dixon scrapbook, 1919-1992, bulk (1924-1931).
- Author
- Dixon, Cecile, 1903-1984.
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Supervised use | *T-Mss 1992-009 Box 1 | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- .1 lin. ft. (1 box).
- Summary
- The Cecile Dixon Scrapbook consists of clippings documenting her entire acting career from 1924-1931. One early clipping [1919] is from a school production. Also contains a manuscript [1992] by her son-in-law Michael Venables of anecdotes on her acting career.
- Subjects
- Note
- Six photographs that came with the scrapbook were placed in the Library's Photograph Collection.
- Access (note)
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Source (note)
- Michael Venables
- Biography (note)
- Cecile Dixon was a British stage actress who first appeared in the famous 1924 production of THE WAY OF THE WORLD with Edith Evans, Elliott Playfair and Elsa Lanchester.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- *T-Mss 1992-009
- OCLC
- NYPW92-A159
- Author
- Dixon, Cecile, 1903-1984.
- Title
- Cecile Dixon scrapbook, 1919-1992, bulk (1924-1931).
- Restricted Access
- Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.
- Biography
- Cecile Dixon was a British stage actress who first appeared in the famous 1924 production of THE WAY OF THE WORLD with Edith Evans, Elliott Playfair and Elsa Lanchester. She then emigrated to the United States where she appeared in OLD ENGLISH with George Arliss. Other productions include THE GREEN HAT, THE ADVENTUROUS AGE, SPELLBOUND and HE WALKED IN HIS SLEEP. In 1929 she married Charles Courtneidge. She retired from the theater in 1931 after the birth of her daughter Ann Courtneidge.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Actresses, English United States.
- Research Call Number
- *T-Mss 1992-009