Research Catalog

Title

Hilda Haynes papers, 1932-1984.

Author

Haynes, Hilda, 1912-1986.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

2.8 linear ft.

Summary

The Hilda Haynes papers consist of biographical material, including a transcript of an oral history interview, and journals. There are also speeches and other writing; scripts; reviews of theatrical productions in which Haynes appeared; and scrapbooks of reviews and other articles, telegrams, and letters. In addition to performing in plays and films, Haynes also did dramatic readings, many of which were written for her by Langston Hughes. The poetry, scripts, and other materials from which she read during those readings are also in the collection.

Subjects

• Interviews
• Diaries
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• Haynes, Hilda, 1912-1986
• African American dramatists
• Scrapbooks
• Scripts
• American Negro Theatre
• African American actresses
• African American women entertainers
• African Americans in the performing arts > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Diaries.
• Interviews.
• Scrapbooks.
• Scripts.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Director's chair seat back transferred to Art and Arifact Division.
• Audiotapes, videotapes and films transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• A. Eugene Lashley

Biography (note)

• Hilda Haynes (1912-1986) was a stage, screen, and television actress whose career spanned almost forty years. Haynes was born and raised in New York City, and became an actress during the early 1940s. She studied and performed with the American Negro Theatre during the 1940s and 1950s, and she was a member of the Negro Actors Guild. She performed in "The River Niger" (Negro Ensemble Company) during its national tour, 1973-74, as well as in several films, television programs, and Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows.

Call Number

Sc MG 626

OCLC

NYPG06-A63

Author

Haynes, Hilda, 1912-1986.

Title

Hilda Haynes papers, 1932-1984.

Biography

Hilda Haynes (1912-1986) was a stage, screen, and television actress whose career spanned almost forty years. Haynes was born and raised in New York City, and became an actress during the early 1940s. She studied and performed with the American Negro Theatre during the 1940s and 1950s, and she was a member of the Negro Actors Guild. She performed in "The River Niger" (Negro Ensemble Company) during its national tour, 1973-74, as well as in several films, television programs, and Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows.

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Research Call Number

Sc MG 626