Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Streep, Meryl
2. Hartman, David, 1935-
3. WABC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.) producer
4. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater

Description

1. 1 videodisc (DVD) (18 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Good morning America's David Hartman interviews actor Meryl Streep for segments airing over two days of the program. Streep discusses her childhood; her attendance at Vassar College and performing in the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg; attending Yale Drama School (where she performed in over 40 productions of its repertory theater); how her views about the acting profession have evolved over time; joining the New York Shakespeare Festival and working with its director Joseph Papp and her experiences being part of the repertory company; achieving success as an actor; her feelings about acting for movies; her views about actor Dustin Hoffman and her experience co-starring with him in the motion picture Kramer vs. Kramer; her views on her own celebrity. Includes brief interviews with Papp, Henry Winkler and Robert Brustein, and film clips and photographs from Streep's life and career.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Series statement

1. Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Alternative title

1. Meryl Streep, WABC-TV, Good morning America, Feb. 17; WABC-TV, Good morning America, Feb. 18

Subject

1. Streep, Meryl
2. Streep, Meryl > Interviews
3. Streep, Meryl > Friends and associates
4. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
5. Actresses > United States > 20th century
6. Actresses > Interviews
7. Theater > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

1. Television.

Call number

1. NCOX 5036

Note

1. This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
2. Interview segments contain several interruptions; commericals are not included.

Event (note)

1. First broadcast WABC-TV, Channel 7, New York, N.Y. on February 17 and 18, 1983.

Title

1. Good morning America. Interview with Meryl Streep [videorecording] / [produced by WABC-TV]

Imprint

1. New York, 1983.

Country of producing entity

1. U.S.

Series

1. Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Event

1. First broadcast WABC-TV, Channel 7, New York, N.Y. on February 17 and 18, 1983.

Added author

1. Streep, Meryl, interviewee.
2. Hartman, David, 1935- interviewer.
3. WABC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.) producer.
4. New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.

Research call number

1. NCOX 5036