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Interview with Doris Eaton Travis
- Title
- Interview with Doris Eaton Travis [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Publication
- New York, c2005.
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) (76 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Veteran performer Doris Eaton Travis talks about her career on stage and screen with interviewer Ralph Howard. She discusses her family, almost all of whom were in show business, her early years as a Ziegfeld girl in the Ziegfeld follies of 1918 and 1919, colleagues such as Eddie Cantor, W.C. Fields, Al Jolson and Fanny Brice, and her later career in silent movies. The difficulty of finding work during the Depression led Ms. Travis to become a dance instructor, and she eventually managed several Arthur Murray dance studios, starting with one in Detroit. In later years Ms. Travis travelled the world, learning new dances.
- Subjects
- Fields, W. C (William Claude), 1880-1946 > Friends and associates
- Eaton, Pearl, 1898-1958 > Family
- Interviews
- Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964 > Friends and associates
- Jolson, Al, 1886-1950 > Friends and associates
- Murray, Arthur, 1895-1991 > Friends and associates
- Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010 > Interviews
- Ziegfeld follies
- Eaton, Mary, 1901-1948 > Family
- Motion pictures > United States > 1921-1930
- Ziegfeld girls
- Dancers > United States > Interviews
- Arthur Murray Schools of Dancing
- Dance teachers > United States > Interviews
- Musical theater > New York (State) > New York
- Dance schools > Michigan
- Brice, Fanny > Friends and associates
- Dance schools > United States
- Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010 > Friends and associates
- Ziegfeld, Flo, 1869-1932 > Friends and associates
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 20, 2005.
- Call Number
- NCOW 283
- OCLC
- NYPG05-F10783
- Title
- Interview with Doris Eaton Travis [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c2005.
- Access
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Performer
- Interviewed by Ralph Howard.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 20, 2005.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Ziegfeld girls.
- Added Author
- Travis, Doris Eaton, 1904-2010, interviewee.Howard, Ralph, interviewer.Hoffman, Patrick.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 283