Eva Le Gallienne Papers, 1951-1962
1 box (.25 linear ft.)
Collection number: MS 92
Terms of Access and Use:
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
The copyright owner of this collection is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Eva Le Gallienne, founder and director of the Civic
Repertory Theatre, New York City, undated
Eva Le Gallienne was born 11 Jan 1899 in London, the daughter of poet and journalist Richard Le Gallienne and Danish journalist Julie Noiregard. Le Gallienne attended drama school for a few months, then moved to New York in 1915. Her first success on stage was at age 20 and was followed by other hits. She abandoned her acting career in 1926 and founded the Civic Repertory Theatre, which closed in 1933. Thirty-two of the thirty-four plays presented there were directed by Le Gallienne. She also starred on Broadway in L'Aiglon with Ethel Barrymore, and translated, staged, and acted in Ibsen's Rosmersholm. She moved with her companion Marion Evensen to a country estate and continued to lecture, tour, and act. Le Gallienne played Queen Elizabeth in Mary Stuart from 1957 to 1962. She won the National Medal of Arts in 1986. Le Gallienne died June of 1991.
This small collection of Eva Le Gallienne's papers includes biographical material, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and her original manuscript of the second volume of her autobiography "Plus Twenty" (published as With a Quiet Heart in 1951). Included also in the collection is also a photograph of Le Gallienne as Queen Elizabeth in the production of Mary Stuart.
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
The copyright owner of this collection is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Eva Le Gallienne Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Eva Le Gallienne donated her papers to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1961.
Collection is unprocessed. Finding aid revised in 2002 by Gayla Spaulding, intern.
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Smith College
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Contents
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Box 1: folder 1
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Biographical articles and obituary,
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1926-1991
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Box 1: folder 2
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Appraisal of manuscript: With a Quiet Heart (appraised by Laurence Gomme),
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1962
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Box 1: folder 3
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Letter to Emily Hale,
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1961
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Box 1: folder 4
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Program of Academy of Music performances of Elizabeth the Queen and Mary Stuart,
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1961
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Box 1: folder 5
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Photograph of Le Gallienne as Mary Stuart, inscribed to Emily Hale,
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1961
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Box 1
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Publicity photographs of Le Gallienne,
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n.d.
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Box 1: folder 6
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With a Quiet Heart: manuscript, in the form of three notebooks (originally entitled "Plus Twenty")
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Box 1
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