- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (67 min.) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Louise Kerz Hirschfeld Cullman, who has been affiliated with the performing arts as a researcher and curator, and in other capacities as well, discusses her life with interviewer Susan Haskins. The interview begins with a discussion of her late husband, the artist Al Hirschfeld, and an examination of his drawing desk, chair, and tools. Subsequent topics include Cullman's early efforts to become an actress; her marriage to theater producer and designer Leo Kerz, and their life together; and her work as a cultural historian, through acting as a research consultant for television documentaries and museum exhibits devoted to prominent personalities in the arts. She tells how she first knew Al Hirschfeld and his wife Dolly Haas as hosts of dinner parties she would attend with her husband Kerz, and discusses her eventual marriage to Hirschfeld after both had been widowed. After his death in 2003, she would marry philantropist Lewis B. Cullman, who died at age 100 in 2019. She concludes by discussing various ways she has maintained Al Hirschfeld's artistic legacy.
- Alternative Title
- Louise Hirschfeld interview
- Subjects
- Hirschfeld, Al
- Interviews
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Cartoonists > United States
- Caricature > United States
- Cullman, Lewis B., 1919-2019 > Marriage
- Kerz, Leo > Marriage
- Hirschfeld, Al > Friends and associates
- Hirschfeld, Al > Marriage
- Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- > Friends and associates
- Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- > Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Title from opening credits.
- This interview can be accessed via physical media (DVD) in the screening room of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive: call number NCOW 435.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., October 7, 2021.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- NCOW 435
- OCLC
- 1333221369
- Title
Interview with Louise Kerz Hirschfeld / conducted by Susan Haskins ; October 7, 2021 ; at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y. ; [video production company] Parker/Hodges Productions ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Production
New York: Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, [2021]
- Copyright Date
©2021
- Type of Content
spoken word
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
video
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Access
Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., October 7, 2021.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- interviewee.
Haskins, Susan, interviewer.
Hoffman, Patrick.
Parker/Hodges Productions.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Other Form:
digital transfer of (videodisc): 1 videodisc ; 4 3/4 in. (OCoLC) b226992275 Interview with Louise Kerz Hirschfeld. New York:2021
- Research Call Number
NCOW 435