Marge Champion Collection
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Marge Champion Collection 1910-2006 (bulk 1940-1990)
Champion, Marge
Biographical History for: Marge Champion Collection 1910-2006 (bulk 1940-1990)
Biographical Note Date Event 1919, Sept. 2 Born Marjorie Belcher, Los Angeles, California 1934 Modeled for Walt Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1936 Stage debut at the Hollywood Bowl performing with Los Angeles Civic Opera 1937 Married Disney animator Art Babbitt (1907-1992) (divorced 1940) 1939 Starred in Universal film Honor of the West, directed by George Waggner Appeared as one of Irene’s girlfriends in the Astaire-Rogers film The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle Toured with the Three Stooges 1940 Modeled for Disney films Fantasia and Pinocchio 1942 Married television media personality Alexander King (1899-1965) (divorced circa 1945) 1943 Appeared on Broadway in Lerner and Loewe musical What’s Up, directed and choreographed by George Balanchine (some sources incorrectly list her name as “Marjorie Beecher”) 1945 Formed “Gower and Bell” with Gower Champion Starred on Broadway in the Richardson and Berney play Dark of the Moon (as the Fair Witch) 1946 Starred in Jerome Kern musical Sally at the Papermill Playhouse, New Jersey 1947 Married Gower Champion (1921-1980) (divorced 1973) Appeared on Broadway in Duke Ellington’s only musical, Beggar’s Holiday (billed as Marjorie Belle as The Lookout, The Girl, and the Lead Dancer) 1948-1950 Assistant to the choreographer (Gower Champion) for Broadway show Lend an Ear, starring Carol Channing 1949 Appeared in Dark of the Moon on television 1950 Marge and Gower appeared in Paramount film Mr. Music, with Bing Crosby 1951 Marge and Gower starred and danced in MGM musical film Show Boat, with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson 1952 Marge and Gower starred and danced in the MGM musical film Everything I Have is Yours Marge and Gower starred and danced in the MGM musical Lovely to Look At, remake of Astaire-Rogers film Roberta (featured Champions dancing in “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and dancing and singing in “I Won’t Dance”) 1953 Marge and Gower starred and danced in MGM musical film Give a Girl a Break, directed by Stanley Donen 1955 Marge and Gower starred and danced in MGM musical film Jupiter’s Darling Marge and Gower danced in Columbia Pictures film Three for the Show Marge and Gower starred on Broadway in 3 for Tonight, directed by Gower Champion Starred in CBS television special 3 for Tonight 1957 Marge and Gower appeared in episode of General Electric Theater television show entitled “Mischief at Bandy Leg” Marge and Gower Champion Show, a television situation comedy, premiered on CBS 1961 Starred in Invitation to March at La Jolla 1964 Starred in Everybody Out, the Castle is Sinking!, which never made it to Broadway (opened in Boston at the Colonial Theater) 1964-1970 Special assistant on Hello Dolly!, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion 1965 Starred in High Button Shoes, St. Louis Muny Opera 1965-1966 Prepared to star on Broadway in The Playroom (cannot verify that she actually appeared in the show) 1966 Starred in The Women, with Gloria Swanson and Julie Adams 1968 Appeared in MGM film The Party, directed by Blake Edwards Appeared in Columbia film The Swimmer, directed by Frank Perry 1969-1973 Involved in the Mafundi Institute where she had a dance floor installed 1970 Choreographed Jean Genet’s The Blacks for the Mafundi Institute (located in the Watts district of Los Angeles), directed by Ivan Dixon 1975 Dance supervisor for Paramount film The Day of the Locust, directed by John Schlesinger Choreographer for Columbia television film Queen of the Stardust Ballroom Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for Queen of the Stardust Ballroom 1976 Appeared in That’s Entertainment, Part II, MGM film that presented “golden moments” from its film library. Marge and Gower Champion were represented by a clip from the 1952 MGM film Lovely to Look At 1977 Married television and film director Boris Sagal (1923-1981) 1978 Choreographer on three episodes of Warner Bros. television mini-series The Awakening Land Directed two-woman play Women and Other People 1980 Gower Champion died just hours before the Broadway opening of 42nd Street, which he was directing 1981 Champion’s husband, Boris Sagal, killed when he walked into the blades of a helicopter while on location 1982 Appeared as a ballet instructor in an episode of the television series Fame Directed RKO television movie I Do!, I Do! Host of Symphony in Three Movements television special honoring 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s birth 1983 Starred on Broadway in 5-6-7-8...Dance! 1985 Appeared in ABC television’s Night of 100 Stars II celebrity benefit for the Actors Fund of America Provided additional staging for Tonight at 8:30 at the Williamstown Theater Festival 1987 Marge and Gower’s son Blake Champion died at the age of 25 Marge donated Blake’s Barn to Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in his memory Choreographic associate for Broadway’s Stepping Out, directed and starring Tommy Tune Choreographer for Grover’s Corners, a musical version of Our Town, at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois 1988 Directed and choreographed Stepping Out at the Berkshire Theater Festival 1989 Directed Lute Song at the Berkshire Theater Festival 1990 Starred in No, No, Nanette at the St. Louis MUNY Opera Choreographed She Loves Me at the Berkshire Theater Festival 1991 Received the Legends of the Dance Award at Florida State’s Triple Crown Ballroom Dance Championship 1997 Received the Commonwealth Award from the state of Massachusetts 2001 Appeared in Broadway revival of Follies 2009 Inducted into National Museum of Dance's Hall of Fame, Saratoga, New York
Scope and Content Note The Marge Champion Collection contains materials pertaining to Champion's life and career, and spans the period 1910-2006, with the bulk of the materials falling between 1940 and 1990. Materials relating to Champion's former husband, Gower Champion, and to her father, Ernest Belcher, are significant and are woven throughout the collection. Gower Champion was a renowned dancer, director, and choreographer. Born in Illinois in 1919, and raised in Los Angeles, he began dance tours in 1933 with Jeanne Tyler. Documents pertaining to these tours are included in this collection. After World War II, he and Marge became dance partners and married in 1947. They performed primarily as a team throughout the 1950s, although Gower began to branch out, serving as a Broadway choreographer on Lend an Ear (1948) and Make a Wish (1951), and as choreographer and director on 3 for Tonight (1955). In the 1960s, Gower had a string of Broadway hits as choreographer and/or director, including Bye Bye Birdie (1960), Carnival! (1961), Hello Dolly! (1964), and I Do! I Do! (1966). These productions are documented in the collection through clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and written material. Gower and Marge Champion divorced in 1973. His shows from the late 1960s and 1970s include The Happy Time (1968), Prettybelle (1971), Sugar (1972), Irene (1973), Mack & Mabel (1974), Rockabye Hamlet (1976), and A Broadway Musical (1978). Gower Champion died of a rare form of blood cancer on August 25, 1980, six hours before the opening-night curtain of what would become one of his greatest Broadway hits, 42nd Street. These later Gower Champion productions are not documented in the collection. However, the collection does contain material related to the 2005 book Before the Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical, by John Gilvey, which chronicles Gower Champion's life and work. Marge Champion's father, Ernest Belcher, was a dancer and choreographer who worked as a trainer and coach for many stars in Hollywood. He was born in London in 1883 and was the principal dancer for the Alhambra Theatre from 1902 to 1909. He moved to Los Angeles in 1915 and founded the Celeste School of Dance in 1916. He was the first choreographer to present dance at the Hollywood Bowl, for which he worked from 1922 until 1936. His first work as a film dance director was in 1918 when he staged dances for D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms. He would go on to work with many silent film era directors, including Cecil B. DeMille, Mack Sennett, and Thomas H. Ince. Although many of the films he worked on have been lost, his work can be seen in A Small Town Idol (1921), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Twinkletoes (1926), The Jazz Singer (1927), King of Kings (1927), Hollywood Revue (1929), General Crack (1930), The Little Princess (1939), and possibly The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). He trained and coached many film performers, including Mary Pickford, Pola Negri, Ramon Navarro, Nanette Fabray and Shirley Temple. Known as the “Father of Ballet” in Southern California, Ernest Belcher died on February 24, 1973, in Los Angeles. A significant amount of material in the collection relates to Ernest Belcher, particularly in the Photographs series. In addition, there is Belcher footage in the audiovisual material that has been transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. The Marge Champion Collection is arranged into eight series. The Musical Theater and Plays, Films, and Television series contains materials that document the depth and breadth of Champion's long and varied career. It is broken down into four subseries: musical theater and plays, films, television and orchestrations, and is arranged alphabetically by title within each subseries. The series contains an extensive array of materials about Marge Champion's career both before her partnership with Gower, including materials related to her work as a model for the character of Snow White, and after, as well as materials relating to their work together. Materials include manuscript scores and parts, scripts, playbills, photographs, clippings and correspondence. The Photographs series contains photographs of Marge and Gower in rehearsal as well as glamour shots of the pair. It also contains historical photographs related to Ernest Belcher's career as a dance director for films, and coach and trainer of film actors. Items include photographs of individuals related to dance and film, including Lina Basquette (Ernest Belcher's stepdaughter), Colleen Moore, Derelys Perdue, Ramon Novarro, Georgia Graves, Joyce Coles, Shirley Temple, Cecil B. DeMille, Vivien Fay, Alexandre Volinin and Lydia Kyasht, Harvey Karels, the Crane Twins, Marjorie and Maria Tallchief, Patsy Ruth Miller, and Victor Moore's wife Shirley. In addition, there are photographs of Mae Ross being trained for the MGM "art of skating" film, Margaret Westberg, "Blair and Dean" dance team, Alice Maison, Marie Prevost, Michael Brigarite, Lucile Iverson, Lois Moran, May McAvoy, Tula Belle and her sister Ebba Mona, Pola Negri, June Roper, Ruth St. Denis, Danish dancer Britta Petersen, and John Barrymore. There are also several photographs of the dance team “the Celestes,” which featured Belcher and his partner Dorothy Edwards. The series also includes a piece of film reel from The Phantom of the Opera, an Ernest Belcher "vaudeville" photograph from around 1910, a film list for Ernest Belcher from the UCLA archives (date unknown), a 1928 Hollywood Bowl program, photographs of the "Carnival of Venice" ballet, and many photographs of scenes from films, including General Crack, The Jazz Singer, A Small Town Idol, Twinkletoes, a film that includes Ebba Mona and her sister Tula Belle, Beau Brummel, and possibly The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The Personal and Business Papers series includes personal materials related to Marge’s family members, including half-sister Lina Basquette, father Ernest Belcher, sons Blake and Gregg, and husbands Gower Champion and Boris Sagal. It also contains biographical documents and clippings, and items from her childhood. The business materials include church and liturgical dance records, contracts, correspondence and agreements. The largest series in the collection, Subject Files, focuses on Marge Champion's travels, event and conference appearances, awards, her involvement in various projects and organizations, and items relating to individuals, including Agnes DeMille, Nanette Fabray, Martha Graham, Mary Martin and Nancy Reagan. The Clippings and Written Materials series contains clippings that span Marge Champion's entire career. It also contains articles and press clippings that focus on Marge and Gower Champion. The Scrapbooks series chiefly relates to Marge and Gower Champion's early career as a team. It also contains a significant number of scrapbooks centering on Hello Dolly!, and to a lesser extent on I Do! I Do! and Bye Bye Birdie. Materials include clippings, photographs, correspondence and programs. The Ephemera and Awards series contains Ernest Belcher’s ballet shoes, Marge Champion’s awards, and Ernest Belcher’s megaphone from 1925 signed by many notable performers, including Sam Warner, John Barrymore, Harry Myers, Lina Basquette, Gloria Swanson, Derelys Perdue, Ramon Novarro, Dolores Costello, Sally Rand, Marion Davies, Pola Negri, and Colleen Moore. The Posters series includes posters from MGM musicals and other films and theater engagements in which Marge Champion appeared. Approximately forty moving images and sound recordings from the Marge Champion Collection have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. In addition, books that came with the collection have been transferred to the Music Division's general collections. An inventory of these materials is available in the Music Division's collection file, as well as in appendices "A" and "B" of a paper copy of the finding aid located in the Performing Arts Reading Room.
series
Musical Theater and Plays, Films and Television
Articles and reviews, clippings, correspondence, notes, photographs, programs, scores and scripts.
subseries
Musical Theater and Plays
file
Beggar’s Holiday: clippings, playbill, article, review, correspondence and photographs
Bye Bye Birdie: correspondence, conference presentation, thesis chapter, undated program from later production, articles, photocopied playbill and printed vocal soundtrack
Carnival script
Dark of the Moon: clippings, printed script, playbill, correspondence and photographs
Everybody Out, the Castle is Sinking: playbill, clippings and photographs
5-6-7-8 Dance: programs, clippings, notes and photographs
Flea in Her Ear: clippings and photographs
Follies: correspondence and photographs
Follies: script with scores and an article
42nd Street: clippings, playbills, advertisements and photographs
Gay Divorcee script
Grover’s Corners (dance movement by Marge Champion): programs, printed notes on production, two stories and photographs
Hello Dolly!: book, playbills, programs, clippings, cast list, correspondence and photographs
High Button Shoes: programs, clippings and photographs
I Do! I Do!: stage director’s guide and other materials, including a tab for each song
I Do! I Do!: playbill, programs, correspondence, clippings, cast list and photographs
I Do! I Do! published score
I Do! I Do!: “profit part”: correspondence and program
I Do! I Do! script, from Tom Jones
I Do! I Do!: stage director’s guide from Tom Jones with correspondence and notes
Invitation to March: clippings, correspondence, magazine and photographs
Jubilee script
Leave It to Me script
Lend an Ear: 40th anniversary correspondence, play, playbill, program, articles and photographs
Lute Song: book, programs, clippings, cast list, notes and script with notes
Make a Wish: playbill, correspondence and photographs
Mr. Music photographs
No, No, Nanette: program from a later production, contact sheet, correspondence, choreographic notes, general notes, printed scores, clippings, vocal score and photographs
Out of this World script
The Playroom clippings
Sally: clippings, program and photographs
She Loves Me: programs, notes on costumes, clippings, photographs and script
Small Wonder: playbill, clippings, printed score and photographs
“Stepping Out at Berkshire Theatre Festival”: program, correspondence with Richard Harris and clippings
Stepping Out: programs and photographs
Stepping Out notes
Stepping Out, with Tommy Tune: correspondence and clippings
Sugar: playbill and photographs
3 for Tonight: correspondence, playbill, clippings, program and photographs
Tonight at 8:30 (Williamstown Theater Festival, 1985): program, scores, rehearsal call, and published plays by Noel Coward
What’s Up: publicity material and photographs
The Women: clippings, programs and photographs
Women and Other People: script, program, correspondence, clippings, scores and notes
Miscellaneous stage shows: clippings, playbills, programs and photographs
Night club engagements: photographs, clippings, correspondence, menu and score book
Publicity gimmicks: photographs and clippings
Films
Everything I Have is Yours photographs
Girl Most Likely photographs
Give a Girl a Break photographs
Jupiter’s Darling: photographs and correspondence
Lovely to Look At: correspondence, photographs and clippings
The Party: clippings, photographs and transcript from TV appearance
Showboat: photographs, reunion program, clippings, score and correspondence
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: L’Illustration, 1938
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Materials on miscellaneous films, such as clippings and photographs, including Disney material
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: article and cover photographs from Life magazine
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs materials, including photographs, articles, stamp, invitation to exhibit, correspondence, Pinocchio and Fantasia material, clippings, score, Willis Pyle letter, 50th anniversary production information and invitation, fan drawings
The Swimmer: clippings and photographs
That’s Entertainment, Part II: clippings, program and correspondence
Three for the Show: correspondence, clippings and photographs
Television
CBS cable: correspondence, clippings, notes and booklet
Fame: two photographs
“Mischief at Bandy Leg” (episode from General Electric Theater) photographs
Publicity tours: photographs (including 1959 Ed Sullivan Russia tour)
Publicity with celebrities: photographs and clippings
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom: clippings, photographs, correspondence, Emmy program and nomination, shooting schedule and script
Reingold beer photographs, 1948-1949
Television clippings, correspondence and photographs
Television photographs, clippings, TV concepts from “2 x 2 x 2” and “From Hollywood to Broadway”
Orchestrations
Music scores by Jay Gorney, 1941-1944, 1964, 1969
At Home
Bows
Buddy’s Butler-Aida
Comm. Tag 1 and 2
County Fair, registered in 1949
Dancing Tag
Eye to Eye
Hang Up
Hotel Room
Jeune Fillette, registered in 1947
Let’s Dance
M-100 Stage Ten
M-102 Which Dance
No Phone
“Opening” March 31
“Opening” for Marge and Gower Champion
Opening
Orchestrations inventory
Re-encounter, registered 1949
They’re Off
Time on my Hands, registered 1959
Time on my Hands
Vaudeville, registered 1941
Wild flower
Wrong Door
Photographs
American Women for International Understanding
Beach photographs
Ernest Belcher's pupils and dancers at the Hollywood Bowl
Ernest Belcher's students at the Hollywood Bowl
Historical photographs related to Ernest Belcher
Photographs from the book Before the parade passes by: Gower Champion and the glorious American musical by John Anthony Gilvey
Gower Champion photographs
Gower Champion photographs (glamour shots, youth)
Gower Champion rehearsal photographs from Hello Dolly!
Marge Champion at movie sets
Modeling and fashion shots of Marge Champion
Marge Champion photographs
Photographs related to Marge Champion
De Mille, Agnes
Materials relating to Disney animator Bill Tytla, including clippings, photocopies of letters, drawings, photographs, maps, articles and booklet on Tytla
Personal and Business Papers
Clippings, correspondence, photographs, programs, publicity materials, biographical materials, contracts and other materials
Basquette, Lina
Clippings, correspondence and photographs
clippings, correspondence and photographs
Belcher, Ernest: various materials
Blake’s Barn, Jacob’s Pillow
Clippings, correspondence, invitation, program, architectural materials and plans, and photographs
clippings, correspondence, invitation, program, architectural materials and plans, and photographs
Candid shots
Champion, Blake
Clippings, program, correspondence and photographs
clippings, program, correspondence and photographs
Champion, Gower
War ration books, passport, notes, clippings, correspondence, speech notes, copy of playbill with Gower and Jeanne
war ration books, passport, notes, clippings, correspondence, speech notes, copy of playbill with gower and jeanne
Champion, Gregg
Resumé, clippings, program and photographs
resumé, clippings, program and photographs
Champion, Marge, biographical information
Photographs, biographical notes, thesis, correspondence, clippings, birth certificate and notes
photographs, biographical notes, thesis, correspondence, clippings, birth certificate and notes
Champion, Marge, childhood
Certificate, programs, photographs, notes, correspondence, papers written by Marge, autograph book
certificate, programs, photographs, notes, correspondence, papers written by marge, autograph book
Champion, Marge and Gower, wedding and anniversaries
Invitation, certificate, photographs and correspondence
invitation, certificate, photographs and correspondence
Church and liturgical dance records
Notes, scores, correspondence, programs, photographs and printed material (8 folders)
notes, scores, correspondence, programs, photographs and printed material (8 folders)
Contracts, correspondence and agreements
Family photographs
Sagal, Boris
Clippings, photographs and correspondence
clippings, photographs and correspondence
Sagal, Boris: The Awakening Land
Photographs, correspondence, clippings and notes
photographs, correspondence, clippings and notes
Sagal, Boris: Masada
Clippings, photographs and award certificate
clippings, photographs and award certificate
Production photographs, clippings, program and correspondence
production photographs, clippings, program and correspondence
Subject Files
Clippings, photographs, correspondence, programs, notes, promotional materials, articles and other materials.
Academy Awards, 1958
Academy Awards, 1986
Clippings, program, detailed schedule and photographs
clippings, program, detailed schedule and photographs
Acting class: Marge’s notebooks and notes
American Arts Alliance
Clippings, correspondence, schedule, program and score
clippings, correspondence, schedule, program and score
American Choreographic Award
American Film Institute Riverwalk
Correspondence, clippings and photographs
correspondence, clippings and photographs
Magazines, programs, maps, drawing, correspondence and schedule
magazines, programs, maps, drawing, correspondence and schedule
Babbitt, Art
Balanchine oral history: interview with Marge Champion and Patricia Marshall
Notes, correspondence, programs and clippings
notes, correspondence, programs and clippings
Ballroom Theater Award
Speech notes, clippings, correspondence, program and photographs
speech notes, clippings, correspondence, program and photographs
Bolden, Mel
Boston Conservatory of Music
Correspondence, speech notes, clippings and photographs
correspondence, speech notes, clippings and photographs
Brockway, Merrill
Clippings, speech notes, program and article
clippings, speech notes, program and article
Carnegie Hall
Clippings, stage bill, correspondence, schedule and speech notes
clippings, stage bill, correspondence, schedule and speech notes
Cartoon Art Museum: materials on Snow White exhibit
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Clippings, correspondence, notes and programs
clippings, correspondence, notes and programs
Channing, Carol
China
Programs, notes, contacts, brochures, maps and a woodcut
programs, notes, contacts, brochures, maps and a woodcut
Columbia Records: Let’s Dance and Champion Strut photographs
Commonwealth Award (Massachusetts Cultural Council)
Clippings, correspondence, press releases, program, award recipients information and photographs
clippings, correspondence, press releases, program, award recipients information and photographs
Coward, Noel
Crosby, Bing
Dance Library of Israel
Speech notes, clippings, invitations, correspondence (Martha Graham and Marcel Marceau photocopies) and photographs
speech notes, clippings, invitations, correspondence (martha graham and marcel marceau photocopies) and photographs
Dancing Ladies
Correspondence, program information and clippings
correspondence, program information and clippings
Davidson, Gordon
Correspondence, clippings and production schedule
correspondence, clippings and production schedule
Easter Bonnet Competition
Eisenhower, Dwight
England, 1985
Fabray, Nanette
Field, Ron
Film Forum
Newsletters, and articles copied for Marge Champion
newsletters, and articles copied for marge champion
Florida State Ballroom Championship
Gilvey, John
Correspondence, clippings, interview list, reviews, notes, parts of the book and photographs
correspondence, clippings, interview list, reviews, notes, parts of the book and photographs
Graham, Martha
Greece
Hollywood High, class of 1936
Correspondence, clippings, program, photographs and information on induction into alumni museum
correspondence, clippings, program, photographs and information on induction into alumni museum
Iceland
Notes, report, brochures and correspondence
notes, report, brochures and correspondence
India
Schedule, article on dance, correspondence, brochure, map and postcards
schedule, article on dance, correspondence, brochure, map and postcards
Institute of the American Musical
Chronology, article, magazine and program
chronology, article, magazine and program
International Ballet Competition
Invitations, correspondence, clippings, program, brochures, schedules and photographs
invitations, correspondence, clippings, program, brochures, schedules and photographs
Jacob’s Pillow
Clippings, correspondence, newsletter, program and photographs
clippings, correspondence, newsletter, program and photographs
Jacob’s Pillow gala, 1986
Programs, clippings, news release and speech notes
programs, clippings, news release and speech notes
Le Divine Italy
Lemmon, Jack
The Lensic (Santa Fe's Performing Arts Center)
Speech notes, programs, brochures and clippings
speech notes, programs, brochures and clippings
Let’s Dance with Marge and Gower Champion by Bob Thomas
Lincoln Center Honors
Program, clippings, notes and correspondence
program, clippings, notes and correspondence
London, 1990
London Palladium
Los Angeles Times, Women of the Year
Mafundi, 1969
Institutional information, Dr. Al Cannon correspondence, clippings, schedules, other correspondence and financial information
institutional information, dr. al cannon correspondence, clippings, schedules, other correspondence and financial information
Mafundi, 1970
Programs, correspondence, institution profile, clippings and public relations material
programs, correspondence, institution profile, clippings and public relations material
Mafundi, 1971
Clippings, correspondence, woodcut, meeting notes and reports
clippings, correspondence, woodcut, meeting notes and reports
Mafundi, 1972
Schedule, reports, correspondence and clippings
schedule, reports, correspondence and clippings
Mafundi crisis, 1973
Correspondence, meeting notes, news releases and clippings
correspondence, meeting notes, news releases and clippings
Mafundi, “The Blacks” production
Poster with notes, invitations, clippings, article, correspondence, notes and cast information
poster with notes, invitations, clippings, article, correspondence, notes and cast information
Martin, Mary
Miscellaneous appearances
Clippings, correspondence, programs, schedule and photographs
clippings, correspondence, programs, schedule and photographs
Miscellaneous drawings and cards
Miscellany
Clippings, correspondence, speech and memoir notes, program and photographs
clippings, correspondence, speech and memoir notes, program and photographs
Names Project
Correspondence, clippings, program and photographs
correspondence, clippings, program and photographs
Negotiation seminar for women in film materials
North Adams State College
Palm Springs desert
Clippings, program, correspondence and speech notes
clippings, program, correspondence and speech notes
Paper dolls
Reagan, Nancy
Rich, Frank
Royal Viking
Correspondence, newsletter, schedule, notes, passenger list, clippings and photographs
correspondence, newsletter, schedule, notes, passenger list, clippings and photographs
Russian trip, 1982
Notebooks and journals, programs, clippings and correspondence
notebooks and journals, programs, clippings and correspondence
St. Denis, Ruth, “The Divine Dance”
San Francisco Ballet, “NRA” with Robert Gladstein
Correspondence, clippings, programs, magazines and photographs
correspondence, clippings, programs, magazines and photographs
San Jose State
Clippings, press release and photographs
clippings, press release and photographs
Showalter, Max
Snow College (Ephraim, Utah)
Stapleton, Maureen
State dinner with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
Clippings, letter from Prince Philip, invitation, guest list and John Foster Dulles correspondence
clippings, letter from prince philip, invitation, guest list and john foster dulles correspondence
Symphony in three movements
Truman, Harry
Telegrams
UCLA film inventory
Correspondence and clippings (donation of film)
correspondence and clippings (donation of film)
White House Conference on Children, 1970
Clippings, bag, speech notes, programs, information booklet and notes
clippings, bag, speech notes, programs, information booklet and notes
Clippings and Written Materials
Champion, Marge and Gower
Clippings
Clippings for Library of Congress
Gilvey, John. Thesis: Gower Champion as Director, volume 1 of 2
God is a Verb
Miscellaneous articles and clippings
Clippings, program, newsletters and photographs
clippings, program, newsletters and photographs
Press
Publicity clippings
Related journals, including Marcel Marceau signed cover
Related published material
Related theater journals
Vanity Fair, The MGM Girls and snapshots, April 1998
Scrapbooks
Clippings, correspondence, programs, photographs.
Bye Bye Birdie
Champion, Gower and Marge, early career
Champion, Gower and Marge
Champion, Marge, early career
Clippings, drawings, photographs and programs
clippings, drawings, photographs and programs
Champion, Marge: five decades of clippings and programs
Hello Dolly!
Clippings, programs, correspondence and images
clippings, programs, correspondence and images
Clippings, images, photographs and programs
clippings, images, photographs and programs
I Do!, I Do!
Scrapbook, 1949-1953
Clippings, images, photographs and correspondence
clippings, images, photographs and correspondence
Scrapbook, 1953-1955
Scrapbook, 1955-1960
3 for Tonight
Unbound scrapbooks with pages of clippings
Posters
Berkshire Theater Festival, 60th Anniversary
Everything I Have is Yours
5-6-7-8... Dance
Follies posters (Terrace Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Belasco Theater, Shaftesbury Theatre, Boston Colonial Theatre, copy)
Give a Girl a Break
Jupiter’s Darling
Let’s Dance with Marge and Gower Champion book and Three for the Show on the bottom of the poster
Lovely to Look At
“Night of 100 Stars 2”
Showboat
Three for the Show, 1955
Ephemera and Awards
Ernest Belcher’s shoes
Megaphone, 1925