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Interview with Ruby Dee
- Title
- Interview with Ruby Dee [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Publication
- New York, c2002.
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Actor, author, playwright and activist Ruby Dee discusses her career with interviewer Billie Allen. The discussion begins with Ms. Dee's early years in Harlem, her education, her introduction to acting through the American Negro Theatre, and the political activism which lead to the blacklisting of many performers and artists in the 1950s. Ms. Dee also discusses her marriage to fellow actor and playwright Ossie Davis, and muses on the cultural role of the actor.
- Alternative Title
- Oral history with Ruby Dee
- Subjects
- Interviews
- American Negro Theatre
- Dee, Ruby > Interviews
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- African American theater > New York (State) > New York
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Davis, Ossie > Friends and associates
- Actresses > Interviews
- Blacklisting of entertainers > United States
- African American actresses > Interviews
- Women dramatists > Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Due to an audio malfunction there is no sound for 30 seconds in the latter portion of the video.
- Recorded at a meeting of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Concludes with a question and answer session with audience members.
- Performer (note)
- Introductory remarks: Harriet Slaughter and Isobel Robins.
- Interviewed by Billie Allen.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., May 8, 2002.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
- Call Number
- NCOW 258
- OCLC
- NYPG03-F6
- Title
- Interview with Ruby Dee [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c2002.
- Performer
- Introductory remarks: Harriet Slaughter and Isobel Robins.Interviewed by Billie Allen.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., May 8, 2002.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.
- Added Author
- Dee, Ruby, interviewee.Allen, Billie, interviewer.Slaughter, Harriet, speaker.Robins, Isobel, speaker.Hoffman, Patrick.League of Professional Theatre Women.Character Generators/Video.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 258