Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Collection
SPEC.TRI.LIB
Ohio State University Libraries Special Collections
36.5 Cubic feet
1906-2007
The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Collection contains photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, audio (primarily record albums and audio reels) and video (primarily film and VHS) recordings, and correspondence of Lawrence Barnett’s career as an entertainment industry executive with MCA and GAC, and Isabel Bigley Barnett’s career as a Broadway singer and actress between 1944 and 2007. The collection also contains photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks of the Barnett’s post-career lives and philanthropic work, primarily with The Ohio State University, the ALS Foundation, and McCallum Theatre. The collection also includes textiles and awards, including Isabel’s Tony Award for Guys and Dolls.
18 archival boxes (various sizes), 15 flat boxes (various sizes), 1 art object
English
Barnett, Larry, (Lawrence)
Bigley, Isabel
Arrangement of Materials
This collection is arranged into three series by subject:
[Series 1: Performance Career of Isabel Bigley Barnett, 1946-2000 ](ref12)
[Series 2: Corporate Career of Lawrence Barnett, 1944-2007](ref315)
[Series 3: Lawrence and Isabel Barnett, 1906-2007](ref367)
Acquistions Information
Donated by Lawrence Barnett, Jr. Trustee of the Lawrence Barnett Living Trust and Isabel Bigley Barnett Living Trust, 2013 November (Accession no. TRI.2013.131).
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Collection, SPEC.TRI.LIB, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University Library
Access to Materials
Materials in this collection are available for use, but may be used in the Thompson Library Special Collections reading room only.
Use of Materials
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright, and are made available for research and educational purposes. In general, the OSU Libraries do not own the copyright for materials from our collections and cannot grant copyright permissions for these materials. The user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exceptions to the law. Works in the public domain are not protected by copyright and do not require permission to use.
Processing Information
Processed by Rachael Riggs Leyva, 2014 June; finding aid written by Rachael Riggs Leyva, 2014 June. Processing and finding aid funded by Lawrence Barnett, Jr. Trustee of the Lawrence Barnett Living Trust and Isabel Bigley Barnett Living Trust.
Biographical Note
Isabel Bigley Barnett (1926-2006) was a Broadway singer and actor. She performed as “Laurie” in the London production of Oklahoma! and originated the role of “Sarah Brown” in Guys and Dolls on Broadway, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in 1951. Other performance credits include the Ed Sullivan Show, the Eddie Fisher Show, and the Colgate Comedy Hour. Rogers and Hammerstein developed a musical for her, Me & Juliet. After her marriage to Lawrence Barnett, she retired from performing to raise their children. She later served as chairwoman of the board of the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, CA.
Lawrence Barnett (1913-2012) worked his way to President of Music Corporation of America (MCA) Talent Agency, enjoying a 37 year tenure with the company and representing many of the bigband leaders and movie stars of the day. After his time with MCA, he served as an executive for several media and entertainment organizations such as General Artist Corporation (GAC), and United Television. As a philanthropist, he served as founding chair for the ALS Association and with his wife Isabel Bigley Barnett established the Ohio State University Arts Administration and Policy graduate program, and the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise.
Scope and Contents
The Lawrence and Isabel Barnett Collection contains photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, AV media, textiles, and correspondence relating to Guys and Dolls, Me & Juliet, Oklahoma!, MCA, and GAC. Materials range in date from 1906 to 2007, with bulk dates 1947-1980 for material relating to the Barnetts’ careers, and 1993-2006 for material relating to their philanthropic endeavors.
Separated Materials
The Tony Award (Object 11) and the F. Monneret portrait of Isabel Barnett (Object 18) are on permanent display at the Barnett Theatre and the Barnett Center for Integrated Arts and Enterprise in Sullivant Hall.
Barnett, Larry, (Lawrence)
Bigley, Isabel
Chris-Craft Television. (Firm)
General Artists Corporation
Music Corporation of America.
Piper Aircraft Corporation.
Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization.
United Television
Actors
Actresses
Big band music
Musical theater--United States--History--20th century
Philanthropists
Talent scouts--United States--History
Isabel Bigley Barnett Performing Career
Series 1
1943-2000
Scope and Contents
Series 1 contains print, AV media, and ephemera relating to Isabel Bigley Barnett’s career as an actress and singer. Photographs, playbills, newspaper clippings, posters, telegrams and correspondence encompass her career in London and on Broadway including Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, and Me & Juliet, as well as lesser known appearances on TV, stage, and radio. Photographs include Rodgers and Hammerstein, Robert Alda, Bill Hayes, Andy Rooney Jr, Harold Keel, in addition to Oklahoma photographs by photographer Angus McBean. There are three boxes of audio record albums of studio recordings for Oklahoma, other performances in London, and appearances on the Ed Sullivan, and Eddie Fisher, and Walter Winchell shows. There are audio reels of studio recordings of Me & Juliet and Guys and Dolls. Films of Isabel in performance include Colgate Comedy Hour, Abbott and Costello, Toast of Town, and commercial ads. This series also contains Isabel’s 1951 Tony Award for her role as the original Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls.
"Alleluia" studio recording
12
5
5
1943
Why Do I Love You? / Smiling Through recordings
12
7
7
1944
Pre-Oklahoma color publicity portrait
10
9
1946
Oklahoma program copy
1
1
1946
Headshots and publicity shots
7
11
1946-1950
Flight to London photographs
7
1
1947
Elise Kligerman, Isabel Bigley, Margaret Nelson Pam-Am flight to London
7
1
1
1947
Harold Keel, Elise Kligerman, Isabel Bigley, Betsey Holmes, Margaret Nelson Pam-Am flight to London
7
1
2
1947
Oklahoma! opening/ and Isabel debut as Laurey photographs
7
2
1947
Oklahoma! pre-show candid photographs
7
8
1947
Photographs of Isabel and cast from Oklahoma preparing for the show in the dressing room (11).
London on-stage photographs of Oklahoma!
7
3
1947
Isabel with Harold Keel (1st Curly)
7
3
1
1947
Betty Jo Jones as Ado Annie, "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No"
7
3
2
1947
Ho Down scene Chris Robinson (Curly), Isabel Bigley (Laurey)
7
3
3
1947
Wedding scene (2)
7
3
004-005
1947
Isabel (Laurey) on porch
7
3
6
1947
Finale, cast
7
3
7
1947
"Out of My Dreams"
7
3
8
1947
Beginning of Dream Ballet
7
3
9
1947
Confrontation with Jud
7
3
10
1947
Isabel (Laurey) with Chris Robinson (Curly)
7
3
11
1947
Anthony Eden photographs
7
4
1947
London programme Oklahoma!
1
2
1947
London newspaper clips and magazine articles - Oklahoma!
1
3
1947
Isabel in Oklahoma! chorus
7
18
1947
Company photo (3)
7
18
001-003
1947
Company photo (Angus McBean) (7)
7
18
004-010
1947
Harold Keel autographed Curly photograph
7
20
1947
London miscellaneous
1
4
1947-1948
Ration books
1
5
1947-1948
Photos of Isabel and Chris Robinson (2nd Curly)
7
19
1947-1949
Opening scene with Chris Robinson (7)
7
19
001-007
1947-1948
Isabel with Chris Robinson (Angus McBean) (3)
7
19
008-010
1947-1948
Margaret Nelson, Isabel Bigley, Beatrice Lynn 1st act (Angus McBean)
7
19
11
1948
Isabel with Chris Robinson (Angus McBean)
7
19
12
1949
Angus McBean photos
7
13
1947-1950
Signed Angus McBean photo of Laurey (2)
7
13
001-002
undated
Isabel as Laurey (3)
7
13
003-005
undated
Isabel (Laurey) with her 3rd "Jud"
7
13
6
1949
Isabel (Laurey), Harold Clark (Jud), Chris Robinson (Curly), Mary Marlo (Aunt Eller) (3)
7
13
008-010
1948
Isabel (Laurey) with Jack Kilty (Curly)
7
13
7
undated
Full cast: Isabel (Laurey) and Chris Robinson (Curly) center, Margaret Nelson below, Pat England (Ado Annie) on right (2)
7
13
011-012
undated
Isabel (Laurey) with Henry Clark (Jud)
7
13
13
1947
Cast photo (2)
7
13
014-015
undated
Pat England (Ado Annie) and Isabel (Laurey) (2)
7
13
016-017
undated
Isabel (Laurey), (Ali Hakim), Mary Marlo (Aunt Eller), Pat England (Ado Annie)
7
13
18
undated
Cast photos (3)
7
13
019-021
undated
Isabel as Laurey
7
13
22
undated
London - Oklahoma! 1
14
17
35
1948
London - Oklahoma! 2
14
18
36
1948
London - Oklahoma! 3
14
19
37
1948
London - Oklahoma! 4
14
20
38
1948
London - Oklahoma! 5
14
21
39
1948
London - Oklahoma! 6
14
22
40
1948
London - Oklahoma! 7
14
23
1
1948
London - Oklahoma! 8
14
24
2
1948
London Recordings 9 - BBC: Out of Your Dreams / Many a New Day
13
9
17
1948
London Recordings 8 - BBC: Oklahoma! / Oklahoma finale and credits
13
8
16
1948
London Recordings 7 - BBC: Many a New Day / People Will Say We're in Love
13
7
15
1948
Baddeley Cake photographs
7
7
1948
Drury Lane Theatre photographs
7
6
1948
London correspondence and invitations
1
6
1948
London newspaper and magazine clippings
1
7
1948
London programmes
1
8
1948
Large pencil drawing of Drury Lane Theatre with Oklahoma! on marquee, W.P. Robius
17
2
1948
London recordings of Isabel Bigley accompanied by piano
12
6
6
1949
Oklahoma! on-stage and publicity photographs
7
5
1948-1949
Isabel (Laurey) with Ado Annie "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say No" (2)
7
5
001-002
1948
Cast encore
7
5
3
1948
Isabel (Laurey) with Curly in opening scene (3)
7
5
004-006
1948
Finale
7
5
7
1948
Isabel in "Many a New Day"
7
5
8
1948
Dancing from "Many a New Day" (7)
7
5
009-015
1948
Ho Down scene
7
5
16
1948
Finale (4)
7
5
017-020
1948
Isabel with Curly opening scene (4)
7
5
021-024
1948
Signed headshot Freddie Collier (Ali Hakim)
7
5
25
1948
Signed headshot Chris Robinson (Curly)
7
5
26
1948
Cast photos (2)
7
5
027-028
1948
Isabel publicity photograph for Tattler Magazine
7
5
29
1948
London Recordings 1 - Songs from the Shows: People Will Say We're in Love / Out of My Dreams
13
1
9
1949
London - miscellaneous magazines and correspondence
1
10
1949
London Recordings 2 - Songs from the Shows: People Will Say We're in Love / Out of My Dreams
13
2
10
1949
London press
1
9
1949
London Recordings 3 - Songs from the Shows: Oh What a Beautiful Morning / Oklahoma!
13
3
11
1949
Program of Royal Academy of Art cabaret
1
11
1949
London Recordings 4 - Songs from the Shows: People Will Say We're in Love / Out of My Dreams
13
4
12
1949
Photograph with Chris Robinson (Curly)
7
9
1949
London Recordings 5 - Songs from the Shows: People Will Say We're in Love / Out of My Dreams
13
5
13
1949
Baddeley Cake photographs
7
10
1949
London Recordings 6 - Songs from the Shows: People Will Say We're in Love / People Will Say We're in Love
13
6
14
1949
Radio Times and Illustrated magazines
9
5
1949
London Recordings 10 - Songs from the Shows: Surrey with the Fringe Top / Out of My Dreams
13
10
18
1949
post-1950 Oklahoma! clippings
1
16
1950-
London press
1
12
1950
Isabel Bigley at Bagatelle Restaurant, London
1
15
1950
Cafe Continental BBC
1
14
1950
BBC - Gay Rosalinda
1
13
1950
Misc. correspondence
1
17
1950
Isabel Bigley screen test for Howard Hughes
1
18
1950
Guys and Dolls press - NY, PA, DC
2
1
1950
Guys and Dolls programs
2
2
1950
New York - congratulations messages
2
3
1950
Guys and Dolls - Museum of the City of New York exhibition
2
4
1950
Small Drury Lane drawing from Macqueen-Pope
17
1
1950
Time, New Yorker magazines featuring Isabel Bigley
5
1
1950
Harper's Bazaar and Vogue with features on Isabel Bigley
5
2
1950
Oklahoma! Isabel and Jack Kilty photograph
7
14
1950
BBC Gay Rosalinda photographs
7
15
1950
Isabel as Adele (5)
7
15
001-005
1950
Isabel (Adele), Jack Buchanan (Eisenstein), Tara Barry (2)
7
15
006-007
1950
Jack Buchanan with Isabel Bigley
7
15
8
1950
Gay Rosalinda cast photographs (5)
7
15
009-013
1950
Large color photograph of Isabel as Adele
7
15
14
1950
Jack Buchanan with Isabel Bigley
7
15
15
1950
Baddeley cake photographs
7
16
1950
Sunday News, This Week Magazine, New York Post Week End Magazine features on Guys and Dolls
10
4
1950-1951
Radio and TV
1
19
1950-1951
Life Magazine issues
9
4
1950, 1972
Isabel Bigley on Ed Sullivan Show video recording
15
26
13 May 1951
TV magazines featuring Guys and Dolls
2
7
1951
Isabel Bigley on Ed Sullivan Show video recording
15
27
26 Aug. 1951
Clippings from magazines
2
9
1951
Guys and Dolls press
2
10
1951
Tony award clippings, invitation, seating
2
5
1951
Isabel Correspondence with celebrities
2
8
1951
Guys and Dolls programs
2
6
1951
Newspaper clilps, miscellaneous
3
8
1951
On-stage Guys and Dolls photographs
8
2
1951
First act opening "Follow the Fold" (2)
8
2
001-002
1951
Act 1 "I'll Know" Isabel Bigley with Bob Alda (5)
8
2
003-007
1951
Act 2 "More I Cannot Wish You" Isabel Bigley with Pat Rooney Sr.
8
2
8
1951
Act 1 "Marry the Man Today" Isabel Bigley with Vivian Blaine
8
2
9
1951
Star billing photographs
8
3
1951
Isabel Bigley with Bob Alda (2)
8
3
001-002
1951
Isabel Bigley at 46th St. marquee (2)
8
3
003-004
1951
Guys and Dolls miscellaneous photos
8
4
1951
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Sam Levine, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pully, Isabel Bigley, unidentified man, nurse, Johnny Silver, and man on stretcher (Larry Barnett?).
Guys and Dolls candid photos
8
6
1951
Theatre lights at night
8
6
1
1951
Isabel with Ward Morehouse (World Telegram critic)
8
6
2
1951
Isabel and Bob Alda Guys and Dolls pre-show (5)
8
6
003-007
1951
Guys and Dolls original Broadway cast album
14
25
1951
Tony Award
11
1951
Cosmopolitan featuring Isabel Bigley
5
3
1951
Magazines with Guys and Dolls features
5
4
1951
Rodgers and Hammerstein party photos
8
10
1951
Oscar Hammerstein, Isabel Bigley
8
10
1
1951
Richard Rogers, Isabel Bigley
8
10
2
1951
Richard Halliday, Mary Martin, Oscar Hammerstein, Isabel Bigley
8
10
3
1951
Mr. Hawkins (World Telgram critic), Isabel Bigley
8
10
4
1951
Signed headshots from Guys and Dolls cast
8
5
1951-1953
Signed headshot Vivan Blain (Adelaide)
8
5
1
1951
Signed headshot Netta Packer (General Matilda Cartwright)
8
5
2
1951
Signed headshot Pat Rooney Sr (Arvide Abernathy)
8
5
3
1951
Signed headshot Norwood Smith (Sky Masterson)
8
5
4
1953
Isabel signed headshots (2)
8
5
005-006
1951
Oversized Periodicals
10
2
1951-1953
The Chesterfield Program recording
14
10
28
1952
Oldsmobile TV commercial audio
14
11
29
1952
Abbott and Costello
12
2
2
1952
"I Feel a Song Coming On" recording
14
13
31
1952
Clippings, correspondence, screentest script for "Ida"
3
9
1952
Newspaper clippings
3
10
1952
Guys and Dolls photographs, 2nd anniversary
8
1
1952
Isabel Bigley, Abe Burrows, Martha Stewart (Adelaide), Pat Rooney
8
1
1
1952
Isabel Bigley, Abe Burrows, Martha Stewart (Adelaide)
8
1
2
1952
Guys and Dolls newspaper clippings, TV guide, CBS advertisement
3
1
1952
Me and Juliet magazine clippings
4
7
1952-1953
"Isabel Bigley Singing" video recording
15
25
1952-1953
Isabel Bigley on Ed Sullivan Show video recording
15
23
26 Jul. 1953
Christmas greetings magazine clipping
4
15
1953
Me and Juliet opening night reviews and ticket
4
1
1953
Guys and Dolls newspaper clippings
3
2
1953
Me and Juliet newspaper clippings
4
2
1953
Me and Juliet newspaper clippings - large
4
3
1953
Me and Juliet Cleveland opening night press
4
5
1953
Boston - Me and Juliet newspaper clippings, Shubert Theatre
4
6
1953
Me and Juliet stage photographs
8
7
1953
Act 1 opening "Girl from Chicago" and "My Special Day" (3)
8
7
001-003
1953
Act 1 "No Other Love" Bill Hayes, Isabel Bigley, Barbara Carroll (pianist) (6)
8
7
004-009
1953
Act 1 Mark Dawson and Isabel Bigley
8
7
10
1953
Act 1 Isabel Bigley, Mark Dawson, Barbara Carroll (pianist), Bill Hayes (3)
8
7
011-013
1953
Act 1 "No Other Love" Bill Hayes, Isabel Bigley, Barbara Carroll (pianist) (2)
8
7
014-015
1953
Act 1 Finale "Marriage Type of Love"
8
7
16
1953
Act 1 Finale (4)
8
7
017-020
1953
Act 2 Opening (4)
8
7
021-024
1953
Act 2 "I'm Your Girl" Isabel Bigley and Bill Hayes (3)
8
7
025-027
1953
Act 2 "It's Me" Isabel Bigley and Joan McCracken (11)
8
7
028-038
1953
Opening night curtain call: Ray Walson, Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes, Joan McCracken, Mark Dawson (2)
8
7
039-040
1953
Me and Juliet: Isabel Bigley
8
7
41
1953
Me & Juliet: Bill Hayes and Isabel Bigley
8
7
42
1953
Me & Juliet: Isabel Bigley
8
7
43
1953
Me & Juliet: scene when Isabel's character is almost killed by a sandbag
8
7
44
1953
Me & Juliet: Isabel Bigley and Joan McCracken
8
7
45
1953
Me & Juliet: Isabel Bigley (3)
8
7
046-048
1953
Me and Juliet misc. photographs
8
8
1953
Isabel at Boston Schubert Theatre
8
8
1
1953
Me & Juliet cast: back row George Abbot, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Rober Attman, Jo Mielziner. Front row Jon McCracken, Ray Walton, Isabel Bigley, Mark Dawson (seated on floor), Bill Hayes, June Sharaff, Jackie Keel
8
8
2
1953
Dove scene publicity shots (2)
8
8
003-004
1953
Musical within a musical scene
8
8
5
1953
Bill Hayes and Isabel Bigley (2)
8
8
006-007
1953
Isabel Bigley Modern Photography photoshoot (2)
8
8
008-009
1953
Bill Hayes signed headshot
8
8
10
1953
Rodgers and Hammerstein party photographs
8
9
1953
Me and Juliet oversized photographs
9
6
1953
Me and Juliet programs - Chicago, Boston, New York
4
8
1953
Cleveland Me and Juliet program - Hanna Theatre
4
9
1953
Me and Juliet script, Act 1 inserts
4
10
1953
Me and Juliet congratulations, good luck, menu
4
11
1953
Pan Am and Esquire ad negatives
4
12
1953
Miscellaneous correspondence and clippings
4
13
1953
Me and Juliet RCA and Victor recording press releases
4
14
1953
TV Guide, Theatre Arts magazines
5
5
1953
Esquire
10
1
Dec. 1953
Isabel Bigley with Rodgers and Hammerstein
10
8
1953
Oscar Hammerstein II with Isabel Bigley
10
8
1
1953
Richard Rodgers with Isabel Bigley
10
8
2
1953
Orchid Award
16
2
30
25 Oct. 1953
Cards and telegrams regarding Barnett's relocation
4
17
1954
Glamour, Conrad Hilton, Vogue with features on Isabel Bigley, Me and Juliet
6
1
1954
Modern Photography with Isabel Bigley on the cover including feature article
6
2
1954
Guys and Dolls clippings and press
3
3
1954-1975
Newsweek issues mentioning Isabel Bigley
6
3
1955-1961
Guys and Dolls Side 1
15
15
10
1971
Guys and Dolls Side 2
15
16
11
1971
Motion Picture, People Weekly with articles mentioning Isabel Bigley
6
4
1976
Guys and Dolls revival press and clippings
3
4
1976-1977
Guys and Dolls in New York Magazine
6
6
1992
Guys and Dolls article in The Atlantic
6
5
1980
Guys and Dolls London revival program
3
6
1998
Tributes to Cy Feuer in SDCF The Journal
6
7
2000
Isabel Bigley Barnett Tribute
15
11
2006
Frank Loesser Bio interview with Isabel Barnett
15
24
undated
Isabel Bigley and Stephen Douglass Sing Rodgers and Hammerstein
14
26
undated
Isabel in live radio show photographs
7
17
undated
Oklahoma! playbill and publicity photographs
7
12
undated
Me and Juliet photocopies of clippings
4
4
undated
Rodgers and Hammerstein wartime article
4
16
undated
The Sullivan Years: An Evening with Rodgers and Hammerstein 2 disk set
15
7
undated
Isabel Bigley MCA headshots
8
11
undated
Colgate Comedy Hour, Abbott and Costello
15
8
undated
Guys and Dolls, Me & Juliet studio photographs
8
12
undated
Guys and Dolls original cast album CD
15
12
undated
Guys and Dolls, Me and Juliet sheet music
9
1
undated
Me and Juliet original cast album CD
15
13
undated
Sheet music
9
2
undated
Oklahoma! oversized photographs
9
3
undated
Isabel (Laurey) and Jack Kilty (Curly) (2)
9
3
001-002
undated
Isabel oversize headshot
9
3
3
undated
Isabel (Laurey) and Harold Keel (Curly) (3)
9
3
004-006
1947
Isabel as Laurey (3)
9
3
007-009
undated
Oversize articles and photocopies
10
3
undated
Guys and Dolls undated clippings
3
5
undated
Guys and Dolls poster
10
5
undated
Guys and Dolls half-tone headshot poster
10
6
undated
Guys and Dolls, Me and Juliet encyclopedia articles
3
7
undated
Guys and Dolls Cosmopolitan stand up advertisement
10
7
undated
Me and Juliet poster
10
10
undated
Isabel Bigley Barnett CVs and bios
3
11
undated
Lyceum Theatre All Star Cabaret poster
10
11
undated
Contract, Equity and AFTRA cards
3
12
undated
Untitled blank disc
12
9
undated
Isabel Bigley portrait by F. Monneret
18
undated
"Lover" recording from album labeled "Isabel Bigley"
14
12
30
undated
Frank Loesser tape 1
15
2
4
undated
"Conversations with Gloria Greer"
15
4
6
undated
Guys and Dolls Fox Backstage on Broadway
15
5
7
undated
Various Reels - 1st Transcontinental jet flight, World Trip, Lucky's Ad
15
6
8
undated
Ed Sullivan Show and Eddie Fisher Show
15
14
9
undated
Me and Juliet (1) audio recording
15
17
12
undated
Me and Juliet (2) audio recording
15
18
13
undated
Unlabeled audio reel (young person singing with guitar)
15
19
14
undated
Unlabeled audio reel (Tommy)
15
20
16
undated
Isabel Bigley Soprano recordings
12
1
1
undated
"I've Never Been in Love Before" organ music recordings
12
3
3
undated
Lucky's Ad
15
21
17
undated
"Lover" / "One Kiss" recordings
12
8
8
undated
Oldsmobile commercial
16
1
18
undated
Unlabeled from London recording series
14
3
21
undated
Orchestral recordings from unlabeled record album
14
4
22
undated
Comedy sketch recordings from unlabeled record album
14
5
23
undated
"They Call Me Mimi" recording
14
6
24
undated
"Someone to Watch Over Me" recordings from album labeled "Bigger Thomas/Good?"
14
7
25
undated
"Love Walked In" recording
14
8
26
undated
"Love Walked In" Miss Isabel Bigley recording
14
9
27
undated
"Toast of the Town" excerpt
15
1
3
31 May 1951
Part 1 and 3 "Walter Winchell" recording
14
1
19
29 July 1951
Part 2 "Walter Winchell" recording
14
2
20
29 July 1951
The Toast of the Town, Me and Juliet
15
10
26 July 1952
Isabel Bigley on the Eddie Fisher Show
14
14
32
12 Jun. 1953
Isabel Bigley on "Eddie Fisher Show"
14
15
33
3 Jul. 1953
Isabel Bigley on Ed Sullivan Show 1
12
4
4
27 Jul. 1953
Isabel Bigley on Ed Sullivan Show 2
14
16
34
27 Jul. 1953
The Orchids Award excerpt
15
9
October 25, 1953
Lawrence Barnett Career
Series 2
1944-2001
Scope and Contents
Series 2 contains materials relating to Lawrence Barnett’s corporate career with the entertainment industry, focusing on his tenures with MCA and GAC. Corporate and financial reports include MCA, GAC, Chris-Craft, United Television, and News Corporation. This series also contains scrapbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Larry's career as an executive with MCA and GAC. There is one box of corporate publicity photographs of Larry photographs of Larry with celebrities and entertainers such as Guy Lombardo, Jack Benny, Hildegarde and Anna, and industry executives Lew Wasserman, Jules Stein, and Herb Seigel. This series also includes Larry's undergraduate thesis for The Ohio State University, "The Underground Economy."
Photos: Larry Barnett at work
25
7
circa 1940-1963
Larry Barnett, Lew Wasserman, unidentified man
25
7
1
undated
Two unidentified men, Jules Stein, Larry Barnett, unidentified man, Sonny Werblin
25
7
2
undated
Front row: Larry Barnett (3rd from right), Lew Wasserman (center behind flowers), Jules Stein (left of Wasserman), Sonny Werblin (left of Stein)
25
7
3
undated
Big band industry gathering
25
7
4
undated
Herb Seigel and Larry Barnett
25
7
5
undated
Larry Barnett at work (2)
25
7
006-007
undated
MCA leather notebooks
25
3
1944-1957
MCA clippings
25
1
1946-1967
Photos: Jack Benny, Queen Mary
25
13
1949
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Larry Barnett on the RMS Queen Mary. Photo 1: Larry, Phil Harris, unidentified man, Joan Benny, Frank Nelson; Photo 2: Phil Harris, Larry, unidentified man, Mary Livingstone, Alice Faye, Jack Benny; Photo 3: Larry, Phil Harris, unidentified man, Joan Benny.
Phil Harris, Larry Barnett, unidentified man, Mary Livingstone, Alice Faye, Jack Benny
25
13
1
1949
Larry Barnett, Phil Harris, unidentified man, Joan Benny, Frank Nelson
25
13
2
1949
Larry Barnett, Phil Harris, unidentified man, Joan Benny
25
13
3
1949
MCA Correspondence
25
2
1952
Correspondence on Larry's promotion to MCA president
24
13
1958
Baldwin-Montrose Chemical Report
24
7
1962
General Artists Corporation Reports
24
10
1962-1964
MCA press scrapbook
27
1
1962-1967
MCA press scrapbook
27
2
1962-1969
Press release June 27, 1963 General Artists Corporation
24
11
1963
General Artists Corporation Public Offering financing book
26
1963
GAC clipping
24
8
1964
General Artists Coporation correspondence
24
9
1964
Piper Reports
24
3
1976-1977
Lawrence Barnett thesis - The Underground Economy
24
1
1988
Accolade clippings, correspondence
24
14
1995
United Television Reports
24
4
1995-1998
Photos: Larry's honorary doctorate, Reikingoff Fundraiser
25
4
1996
Reikingoff fundraiser: Larry Barnett and Isabel Bigley (3)
25
4
001-003
1996
Reikingoff fundraiser: Larry Barnett Jr, unidentified woman, Gordon Gee, Isabel Barnett, Larry Barnett
25
4
4
1996
Reikingoff fundraiser: Larry Barnett, Isabel Barnett, Gordon Gee, Donald Harris
25
4
5
1996
Family photographs from Larry's honorary doctorate (5)
25
4
006-010
1996
Larry's honorary doctorate: Gordon Gee and Larry Barnett (2)
25
4
011-012
1996
Chris-Craft Reports
24
2
1997-1999
News Corporation Report
24
5
2001
News Corporation-Chris-Craft news clippings
24
6
2001
Lawrence Barnett business cards, stationary
24
12
undated
MCA footage of campus and Lawrence's office
41
1
19
undated
Larry Barnett Band photo negative
25
5
undated
Photos: Larry publicity
25
6
undated
Photos: Guy Lombardo
25
8
undated
Larry Barnett, Jules Stein, Guy Lombardo (3)
25
8
001-003
undated
Larry Barnett on Guy Lombardo's boat
25
8
4
undated
Guy Lombardo on his boat
25
8
5
undated
Hildegarde and Anna
25
9
undated
Jack Benny Friars Luncheon money clip
25
10
undated
MCA TV aluminum lighter
25
11
undated
Larry Barnett Band photograph
25
12
undated
Larry Barnett corporate photographs
9
7
undated
Lawrence and Isabel Barnett
Series 3
1906-2007
Scope and Contents
Series 3 encompasses material relating the Lawrence and Isabel’s pre- and post-career lives, philanthropic work, and family. There are several scrapbooks, clippings, and correspondence relating to Larry’s involvement in the ALS Foundation, the creation of the MA degree in Arts Policy and Administration at Ohio State, and other philanthropic work to arts and enterprise at Ohio State. This series includes a scrapbook, telegrams, clippings, and photographs of Larry and Isabel’s engagement, wedding, and wedding reception. There are awards from the ALS foundation, OSU Alumni Association, McCallum Theatre, and Larry’s honorary doctorate from The Ohio State University. This series includes three dresses of Isabel’s, including her blue Bergdorf Goodman wedding suit. Films, videocassettes and DVDs encompass interviews with the Barnetts, family gatherings, and tributes to Isabel. Photographs include Isabel’s travels through the UK and Europe during the late 1940s.
Zeigfeld follies programs
28
16
1906-1907
Derry Feis clippings for Isabel's mother
30
8
1914
Isabel Pre-career photographs
29
1
1926-1947
Isabel Pre-1947 newspaper clippings
30
7
1941
Celebrity correspondence
28
8
1946-2007
Photos of WWI damage
29
2
1947
Visiting family
29
3
1947
Sightseeing
29
4
1947
Navy Ball
29
5
1947
Oklahoma! cast
29
6
1947
Old Derek's party
29
7
1947
Thanksgiving, London
29
8
1947
London misc.
29
9
1947
Sightseeing
29
10
1948
Olympics, London
29
11
1948
Navy dance
29
12
1948
Derek's party
29
13
1948
London Christmas
29
14
1948
Sightseeing
29
15
1949
Brighton with family
29
16
1949
Dept. store club opening
29
17
1949
Crew of Isabel, Royal Air Force
29
18
1949
Entertaining at hospital
29
19
1949
London, US Embassy
29
20
1949
Dereks' birthday party
29
21
1949
Isabel at the racetrack photographs, London
29
22
1950
Isabel Bigley theatre performer award
32
3
1950-1951
Photographs of Larry and Isabel
28
14
1950s-2000s
First anniversary at Stork Club (2)
28
14
011-012
1954
Larry and Isabel with couple at Stork Club (2)
28
14
013-014
1954
Larry and Isabel (9)
28
14
001-009
undated
John Glenn, Isabel Barnett, Larry Barnett
28
14
10
undated
Larry and Isabel at the Empire Room, The Waldorf Astoria
28
14
15
undated
Isabel misc. photographs
30
1
1951
Pictures of Isabel Bigley with her mother
30
2
1951-1952
Isabel misc. photographs
30
3
1952-1955
Larry and Isabel wedding guest book
38
3
1953
Isabel Bigley blue Bergdorf Goodman wedding suit
34
1953
Larry and Isabel wedding record book
38
2
1953
Larry and Isabel wedding invitation and gift list
30
11
1953
Clippings - engagement, wedding, honeymoon
28
2
1953
Wedding photographs
28
5
1953
Larry and Isabel on wedding day, stereoslide
28
5
1
1953
Morris Schrier, Larry Barnett, Isabel Bigley, Margaret Nelson, Judge Julius Groher (2)
28
5
002-003
1953
Wedding reception: Larry Barnett, Xavier Cugat (?), Isabel Bigley, Victor Borge
28
5
4
1953
Wedding reception: Larry Barnett, Sammy Kaye, Isabel Barnett
28
5
5
1953
Wedding reception: Eddie Fisher, Larry Barnett
28
5
6
1953
Richard Rodgers signed headshot
28
5
7
1953
Wedding telegrams
28
3
1953
Wedding reception guest list
28
4
1953
"Isabel and Larry" wedding scrapbook
39
3
1953-1961
Clippings - baby announcements and related
28
6
1956-1959
Entertainer Playbill with Lawrence Olivier
30
9
1958
First transcontinental jet flight
41
2
20
1959
First Pan-American transatlantic flight materials
30
10
1959
Photographs from TRI Exhibit
30
4
1993
OSU Barnett symposium
28
9
1993-1995
TRI unveiling: Nena Couch, Alan Woods, Isabel Barnett
28
9
1
1986
TRI Isabel exhibit: Larry Barnett, Isabel Barnett, Alan Woods
28
9
2
1986
TRI Isabel exhibit: Larry and Isabel Barnett
28
9
3
1986
Founding of MA in Arts Policy and Administration program: Larry Barnett, OSU President Gordon Gee, Isabel Barnett
28
9
4
1993
OSU Symposium scrapbook
40
1
1993-1995
ALS Association from scrapbook
28
11
1993-1995
OSU campus campaign
28
10
1995
ALS Lifetime Achievement Award - Tiffany Crystal
31
1
1995
OSU interview with the Barnetts
41
11
1996
Larry's honorary doctorate scrapbook
39
2
1996
Larry Barnett honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree
32
1
1996
"Tuesday with Morrie" news segment
41
8
27
2001
Isabel Bigley Barnett scrapbook
40
2
2000-2006
Barnett Symposium scrapbook
38
1
2003
Jane Pauley, NBC News, Access Hollywood, dental implant infomercial
41
7
26
2004
OSU Gerlach award
33
2
2004
HWY 111 feature on Larry and Isabel
28
12
2004
Robert Redford scrapbook from Barnett Distinguished Lecturer series
39
1
2005
ALS Commitment to a Cure award
33
1
2005
McCallum Theatre award
33
3
2005-2006
Isabel's and Lawrence's 40th wedding anniversary montage of family pictures and video
41
15
15 Jun. 2005
Isabel Bigley Barnett obituaries
28
7
2006
Isabel 80th birthday disc 2
41
13
2006
Isabel 80th birthday disc 1
41
12
2006
McCallum Theatre Gala: an Evening with Tony Bennett tribute to Isabel Bigley Barnett program
40
3
2006
OSU Alumni Association medallion
31
2
2007
OSU Ambassador medal certificate
32
2
2007
Isabel Bigley green sequined tulle gown
35
undated
32 GB flash drive of converted and digitized media for use copies (audio and video only with SPEC.TRI.LIB call numbers)
41
16
undated
64 GB flash drive of digitized material for use copies (print material, photographs, audio, video)
41
17
undated
Color photographs of grandmothers
30
6
undated
Isabel post-performance career clippings
28
1
undated
Misc. photographs
30
5
undated
Janet Waldo Lee, Jerome Lawrence, Isabel Bigley, Larry Barnett
30
5
1
undated
Carol Channing, Larry Barnett, unidentified man
30
5
2
undated
Shirley MacLaine, Isabel Barnett
30
5
3
undated
Kitty Carlisle Hart, unidentified man, Isabel Bigley
30
5
4
undated
Barnett children Larry and Jim
30
5
5
undated
Gladys and Isabel at Asbury Park
30
5
6
undated
Bigley storefront
30
5
7
undated
Isabel Bigley singing with John Raitt at Frank Pollock's 90th birthday
30
5
8
undated
Dining with friends: Isabel 2nd from left, Isabel's mother on right
30
5
9
undated
Ohio State halftime photographs
28
13
undated
Photocopies of photo proofs
28
15
undated
Isabel Bigley white strapless satin gown with sequined beading
36
undated
ALS founding certificate
37
1
undated
Empty album tin
37
2
undated
Laurie Barnett - Toast of Broadway, family films, photos
41
10
undated
Dean Harris interview master
41
14
29
undated
Laurie Barnett - Toast of Broadway, family films, photos
41
9
28
undated
Getty Center Documentary "Concert of Wills"
41
4
22
undated
Barnett retreat and reception dinner
41
5
24
undated
Geraldo with Shirley MacLaine impersonator
41
6
25
undated
Recorded television shows
41
3
21
undated