Sam Jaffe papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1175
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; Theater; Equity Library Theatre (New York, N.Y.); Theater rehearsals; Blacklisting of entertainers; Motion picture acting; United States; Acting; Shylock (Fictitious character); Television acting
Description: Correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, printed matter, sketches, photographs, and other papers relating to Jaffe's career as an actor and his personal life including his experience as a blacklisted actor in the 1950s.  Subjects include Jaffe's lifelong friendship with Edward G. Robinson, an account of rehearsing a play with Max Reinhardt, an analysis of William Shakespeare's character Shylock, the Equity Library Theatre, and the U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities.  Correspondents include Bettye Ackerman, James Cagney, James T. Farrell, John Garfield, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, John Huston, Elia Kazan, Philip Loeb, Ferenc Molnár, Zero Mostel, Erwin Piscator, Max Reinhardt, Edward G. Robinson, Ezra Stone, and Lillian Taiz.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Bettye Ackerman Jaffe, 2003.

Actor.

Collection material in English.

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