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Additional authors

1. Parsons, Estelle
2. Lindstrom, Pia
3. Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946-
4. Slaughter, Harriet
5. Robins, Isobel
6. Hoffman, Patrick
7. League of Professional Theatre Women
8. Character Generators/Video
9. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (67 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Actor/director Estelle Parsons discusses her career with interviewer Pia Lindstrom. Topics covered include Parsons' education, her early years working on the Today show, her experiences singing in Broadway musicals, her tour in Roberto Athayde's play Miss Margarida's way, her work as artistic director for the Actors Studio, and her experiences as a director, as in the recent public reading of Oscar Wilde's Salome with Al Pacino.

Alternative title

1. Oral history with Estelle Parsons

Subject

1. Parsons, Estelle > Interviews
2. Pacino, Al, 1940- > Friends and associates
3. Athayde, Roberto, 1949-
4. Athayde, Roberto, 1949- > Friends and associates
5. Today show (Television program)
6. Acting > Technique
7. Theater > New York (State) > New York
8. Actresses > Interviews
9. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
10. Women theatrical producers and directors > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 268

Note

1. Copy of program available.
2. Recorded at a meeting of the League of Professional Theatre Women. A question and answer session with audience members begins at 60:25.

Performer (note)

1. Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis, Harriet Slaughter, Isobel Robins.
2. Interviewed by Pia Lindstrom.

Event (note)

1. 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 12, 2003.

Funding (note)

1. Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Title

1. Interview with Estelle Parsons [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Imprint

1. New York, c2003.

Performer

1. Introductory remarks: Jacqueline Z. Davis, Harriet Slaughter, Isobel Robins.
2. Interviewed by Pia Lindstrom.

Event

1. 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 12, 2003.

Funding

1. Recorded with the financial assistance of the League of Professional Theatre Women.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Parsons, Estelle, interviewee.
2. Lindstrom, Pia, interviewer.
3. Davis, Jacqueline Z. (Jacqueline Zurat), 1946- speaker.
4. Slaughter, Harriet, speaker.
5. Robins, Isobel, speaker.
6. Hoffman, Patrick.
7. League of Professional Theatre Women.
8. Character Generators/Video.
9. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

Research call number

1. NCOW 268