The Ohio State University

Inventory of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Collection: The playwriting team of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee was one of the great partnerships in American twentieth-century theatre. Among their many long running and widely produced plays are Inherit the Wind, First Monday in October, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, and Auntie Mame. The collection includes scripts, script development notes, production files, correspondence, teaching materials, photographs, clippings, journal and magazine issues, artifacts, audiovisual materials, original art, autographs, playbills, souvenir booklets, theatre and writer organizations materials, brochures and conference materials, posters, radio and television scripts, and books.

Guide to the Sanford Roth collection: The collection consists of 33 black-and-white photoprints, 35 x 25 cm. or smaller. Subjects include George Antheil, Irving Berlin, Marlon Brando, Paddy Chayefsky, Colette, Noel Coward, Joan Crawford, James Dean, Sandra Dee, Alain Delon, Lord Dunsany, Peter Finch, Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Christopher Isherwood, Danny Kaye, Charles Laughton with Anne Baxter, Jack Lemmon, Carlo Levi, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, Groucho Marx, Raymond Massey, Alberto Moravia, Eric Maria Remarque, Jean Renoir, Edward G. Robinson, Francois Sagan, James Stewart, Igor Stravinsky, Kay Thompson with Evelyn Rudie, Peter Ustinov.

Inventory of the Twyla Tharp Archive, 1963-1997: The Twyla Tharp Archive is a massive collection of materials which document her creative career in dance, film and television; the Tharp dance company known by various names including Twyla Tharp and Dancers, Twyla Tharp Dance, and Tharp!, and the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation.. The collection includes photographic series, press and promotion series, artistic series, technical production series, administrative series, financial series, development series, moving image series, sound recording series, personal papers series, and books used for research (access available through the Ohio State University online library catalog). The original large gift was made by Twyla Tharp in 1991 with continuing additional deposits.

Inventory of the Leonard Spigelgass Papers: The collection contains books, scripts, playbills, clippings, awards, photos, journal articles by Spigelgass, biographical and miscellaneous materials. It includes typescript copies of Spigelgass's scripts for The Playgirls, Farce and The Royal Family of Broadway (television play with holograph notes by Lynn Fontanne). Materials on A Majority of One include a scrapbook with N.Y. and Philadelphia review clippings, programs and an original cartoon signed by Sandy Roth. There is sheet music by Jule Styne for the musical Look to the Lilies; 3 theater posters; and photographs of actors (including signed photographs of Mae West and of Gertrude Berg and Cedric Hardwicke in A Majority of One).

Guide to the Robert A. Wachsman papers: Collection consists of photographs, programs, reviews, clippings and miscellaneous materials, chiefly of the original production of Porgy and Bess which opened in Boston in 1935 and toured for several years in the U.S. Also contains various materials related to John Henry, Boy meets girl, Home town boy and other productions in which Wachsman was involved. Includes programs and clippings on composer George Gershwin; holograph manuscript of a musical composition by Harold Arlen (Last night when we were young) with signed notation; copies of scores by Harold Arlen (Stormy weather, Let's fall in love excerpt); souvenir program signed by producer Merle Armitage; autographed copy of John Henry blues by composer W.C. Handy; menu signed by Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer and others; portrait print of Jerome Kern with signed inscription.