Beatrice Straight papers, [ca. 1925]-1990.
Collection Number: 4496

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:

Beatrice Straight papers, [ca. 1925]-1990.

Repository:

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Collection Number:

4496

Abstract:

Reviews, playbills, letters, scripts, press releases, various photographs, and scrapbooks relating to her life and her acting career.

Creator:

Straight, Beatrice.

Quanitities:

1.4 cubic feet.

Language:

Collection material in English

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Beatrice Straight papers, #4496. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Biographical / Historical

Actress. Beatrice Straight, daughter of Willard Dickerman Straight and Dorothy Whitney Straight, was born August 2, 1914 in Old Westbury, N. Y. Some time after her father.s death in 1918, her mother married Leonard Elmhirst and moved to England where Beatrice attended a progressive school in Devon called Dartington Hall. She persuaded Michael Chekhov, nephew of Anton Chekhov, to move his studio from Moscow to Dartington Hall, where he taught for a number of years, and later to Ridgefield, Connecticut. All through her career Beatrice strongly supported other actors and took part in acting companies both large and small. She was particularly interested in the stage and education of those interested in acting, especially children. She made her Broadway debut in 1935 in "Bitter Oleander" and performed until 1991, sometimes in roles with her husband, Peter Cookson, was a singer, dancer, actor and playwright. Many scripts in the collection bear his name or pseudonym. Honors she received include a Tony Award in 1953 for her role in "The Crucible" and an Academy Award in 1977 for her supporting role as the wife of William Holden in "Network" a scene which lasted approximately five minutes in the final version of the film. She enjoyed a wide variety of roles ranging from Shakespearean productions to Wonder Woman.s queen mother, and "Deadly Voyage" a performance aboard a cruise ship. She died in 2001 at age 86.

Scope and content

Correspondence, reviews, playbills, scripts, press releases, various photographs, one scrapbook, contracts, films, audio tapes, phonograph records, and other documents and items relating to her life and acting career plus biographical information about her and her family. Also included are photographs, clippings, scripts and other materials documenting the career of Peter Cookson.

SUBJECTS

Names:

Chekhov, Michael, 1891-1955.

Cookson, Peter W.

Form and Genre Terms:

Television scripts.

Shooting scripts.

Scrapbooks.

Radio scripts.

Press releases.

Playbills.

Photographs.

Phonograph records.

Audiotapes.

Acetate films.

CONTAINER LIST

Container		Description	Date
		Series I. Biographical Materials
Box 1	Folder 1	Beatrice Straight	1977-1981
Box 1	Folder 2	Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst	1969
Box 1	Folder 3	Straight-Elmhirst family tree	n.d.
Box 1	Folder 4	Whitney and Straight families	1980-1983
Box 1	Folder 4	Peter Cookson obituaries	1990
		Series II. Correspondence
		General Correspondence
Box 1	Folder 6	A - Academy of American Poets	1966-1974
Box 1	Folder 7	Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	1977-1989
Box 1	Folder 8	The Acting Company, Actors' Enclave - The Actors' Equity Association	1974-1990
Box 1	Folder 9	The Actors' Fund	1971-1983
Box 1	Folder 10	Adelphi University - Advocates for the Arts; Agency for the Performing Arts, Inc., (APA); APA Repertory Company; Air Time International Inc. - American College Theatre Festival; American National Theatre	1973-1990
Box 1	Folder 11	American Place Theatre; American Theatre Wing; Association of American Women Playwrights - Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.; Austin	1971-1991
Box 1	Folder 12	B - Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Conservancy Council, Inc. (BLECC)	1966-1991
Box 1	Folder 13	Berkshire Theatre Festival	1979-1991
Box 1	Folder 14	Bern - Bombay Cinemas - Boz	1971-1991
Box 1	Folder 15	Br - Peter Brook, International Theatre Institute of the United States, Inc. - Curtis Brown Ltd. - Bu	1973-1991
Box 1	Folder 16	Ca - California Shakespeare Festival - Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, Chase	1966-1989
Box 1	Folder 17	Chekhov Studios	1989-1990
Box 1	Folder 18	The Children's Aid Society; Children's Center for Creative Arts - Circle Repertory Company; City Center; City of New York - Classical Theatre Foundation - Cogan Management - College at Purchase - CBS; Columbia University in the City of New York; The Columbus Dispatch - Connecticut Commission on the Arts Awards; Connecticut Theatre Foundation, Inc.; Conner	1971-1988
Box 1	Folder 19-20	Condolences re Peter Cookson	1990
Box 1	Folder 21	Cookson - CORD (Congress on Research in Dance) - The Corinthian Theatre	1978-1979
Box 1	Folder 22	Cornell University	1976-1990
Box 1	Folder 23	Corsair & Co. - Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, Inc. - Criswell Predicts - Richard Curland, October Productions - Cu	1975-1990
Box 1	Folder 24	D - De	1974-1990
Box 1	Folder 25	Do - Drama Desk - Dramatic Risks - Du Brock, Studio Arena Theatre; Du Prey; Duffy	1973-1990
Box 1	Folder 26	East Mid-Manhattan Chamber of Commerce Inc. - Educational Solutions - Ely, Library and Museum of the Performing Arts - Encore - Equity-League Pension Fund; Equity Library Theatre; Equity News; Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation	1972-1991
Box 1	Folder 27	Faerie Tale Theatre - Family Weekly - The Feminist Press - Films in Review- Fort Worth Art Center; Foster Parents Plan - Harold Freedman Brandt & Brandt; Stanley Friedman - Fryer, 20th Century Fox; Fund for New Priorities in America	1972-1991
Box 1	Folder 28	G - nf Geria III Filmgesellschaft mbH; Phil Gersh Agency; GeVa On Stage - Karolyn Gould - Group One Television, Inc. - Guardians Theatre Company - Gurian-Sholder Productions, Inc.	1966-1990
Box 1	Folder 29	H - Hambleton, Phoenix Theatre - Walter Hampden-Edwin Booth Theatre Collection and Library - Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. - Hickman, Porterville Area Shakespearean Guild - High	1968-1988
Box 1	Folder 30	Hill - Historical Society of the Westburys - Housatonic Valley Association, Inc. - Hu	1938-1990
Box 1	Folder 31	IASTA (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Theatre Arts); Institute of International Education; The Interchange; International Theatre Institute of the United States, Inc. - Is	1966-1991
Box 1	Folder 32	J - Jeffcoat, Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.; John Jay College Drama Forum - Junior League Magazine	1969-1991
Box 1	Folder 33	K - Khokar - Kohner-Levy Agency	1967-1991
Box 1	Folder 34	L - Lagerfelt - The Lambs - Langdon	1971-1990
Box 1	Folder 35	Langton	1972-1990
Box 1	Folder 36	Larson - League of Theatre Artists, Inc. - Leukemia Society of America, Inc. - Robert Lewis Acting Company; Lexington Conservatory Theatre - Lion Theatre Company - Little	1971-1988
Box 1	Folder 37	Littler	1963-1965
Box 1	Folder 38	Live - Lynn	1966-1990
Box 1	Folder 39	M - Mahon	1977-1988
Box 1	Folder 40	Mal - Manhattan State Citizens' Group, Inc. - Charles Marowitz - Maslansky/Koenigsberg; Mason & Cumming Productions - Mayfair House	1971-1990
Box 1	Folder 41	McCabe - McGraw-Hill Book Company - The Mental Health Association of New York and Bronx Counties	1977-1988
Box 1	Folder 42	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - The Met - Midwest Playwrights Laboratory; Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. - Miller Outdoor Theatre	1975-1990
Box 2	Folder 1	Mir - Richard Morse Mime Theatre - Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Mitchell - Museum of the City of New York	1973-1990
Box 2	Folder 2	National Broadcasting Company; National Endowment for the Arts; National Film Preserve Ltd.; National Repertory Theatre; National Telefilm Associates, Inc.; National Theatre of the Deaf; Navajo Community College	1959-1979
Box 2	Folder 3	NET (National Educational Television); "Network" (Simcha Productions, Inc.) - The New Dramatists, Inc.; The New Globe Theatre, Inc.; New School for Social Research; New York Philharmonic - The New York Public Library; The New York Quarterly; New York Shakespeare Festival; New York Theatre Review; New Yorkers for Koch	1971-1990
Box 2	Folder 4	Night of 100 Stars - Northwood Institute - Liz Nygaard, the Lynne Gordon show	1977-1990
Box 2	Folder 5	O - O'Neill Theatre Center; the Open Eye - Outer Critics Circle; Owen	1966-1977
Box 2	Folder 6	Pa - Wm. Packard; Palace Players, Inc. - Performing Arts Group - Pinto, Winokur & Pagano - Pittsburgh Public Theater; Players for the Globe - Poor Murderer Company	1966-1990
Box 2	Folder 7	Pr - Princeton University Press; property; Public Broadcasting Service; Putnam	1977-1990
Box 2	Folder 8	Ra - Readers Repertory Company - The Rehabilitation Institute - Res	1966-1991
Box 2	Folder 9	Ri - Rolling Rep; Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund, Inc. - Steve Ross, CBS - Ryan	1971-1990
Box 2	Folder 10	Sa - Saint Clement's - Saint John's University - The Shakespeare Globe Center (North America) Inc. - George Shdanoff - Sherman, E.	1973-1990
Box 2	Folder 11	Harold Sherman	1975-1989
Box 2	Folder 12	Shir - Simon Studios; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - Sotheby's; Southbury Training School; The Friends of George Spelvin - Starlight International; State of New York Department of Agriculture and Markets; State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation - Stau	1971-1989
Box 2	Folder 13	The Rudolf Steiner School; STE Representation Ltd. - Studio Arena Theatre - Jean Sullivan - Sun Day in New York	1966-1991
Box 2	Folder 14	Arnold Sundgaard	1973-1988
Box 2	Folder 15	Sup - Ingo Swann - Robert Swann, Institute for Community Economics, Inc - Sz	1973-1990
Box 2	Folder 16	T - Theatre Communications Group, Inc.; Theatre Development Fund; Theatre Hall of Fame; Theatre in the Street; Theatre in a Trunk, Inc.; Theatre Institute at Storm King; The Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine; Friends of the Theatre and Museum Collection, The Museum of the City of New York; Theatre Network of Houston; Theatreworks USA - Town Hill School - Twelfth Night Club	1970-1990
Box 2	Folder 17	U - University of Chicago; University of Wyoming	1971-1985
Box 2	Folder 18	V - the Village Voice - Vogt	1972-1990
Box 2	Folder 19	W - Kelly Ann Whalen, Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center, Inc. - William C. Whitney Foundation; Whitney Museum of American Art - Who's Who in the Theatre - The Williamstown Theatre; Williamstown Theatre Festival	1972-1990
Box 2	Folder 20	Yale University; Nicholas Yanni - Young World Foundation	1971-1980
Box 2	Folder 21	Z	1966-1979
Box 2	Folder 22	No surname: A - K	1939-1991
Box 2	Folder 23	No surname: L - V	1966-1989
Box 2	Folder 24	Illegible and unidentified correspondents	1966-1990
		Celebrity correspondence
Box 2	Folder 25	Abraham D. Beame, Theodore Bikel, Jimmy Carter, Greer Garson, Lillian Gish, Alec Guinness, Hal Holbrook, Angela Lansbury, Shirley MacLaine, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers, Artie Shaw, Elizabeth Taylor and Robert F. Wagner, Jr.	1960-1989
		Family correspondence
Box 2	Folder 26	Bowater family	1972-1979
Box 2	Folder 27	Nellie (Nello) Von Volkenberg Browne	1971-1974
Box 2	Folder 28	Beatrice Straight Cookson	1978
Box 2	Folder 29	Gary Cookson	1977-1988
Box 2	Folder 30	Gary Straight Cookson baby book	1950
Box 2	Folder 31	Maurine Cookson to Gary Cookson	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 32	Peter Cookson	1974, n. d.
Box 2	Folder 33	Peter W. Cookson, Jr.	1974, 1981
Box 2	Folder 34	Tony Cookson family	1979, n. d.
Box 2	Folder 35	Brooksie Cookson Copland	1971-1987
Box 2	Folder 36	Sue Elmhirst	1974-1975
Box 2	Folder 37	Jessica Padillo	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 38	Lady Daphne Straight	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 39	Michael Straight	1971-1979, n. d.
Box 2	Folder 40	Whitney Straight	1951-1977, n. d.
Box 2	Folder 41	Unidentified	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 42	Blank cards and postcards	n. d.
		Series III. Professional Papers
		Background and reference materials
Box 2	Folder 43	"Acting for Life," by Felicity Mason with Michael B. Ellner. R.H.	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 44	Actors' Enclave	1987-1988
Box 2	Folder 45	The Actors' Equity Association	1978-1980
Box 2	Folder 46	The Actors' Fund of America	1977-1979
Box 2	Folder 47	Edward Albee	1990
Box 2	Folder 48	Alley Theatre	1990
Box 2	Folder 49	American College Theatre Festival	1973
Box 2	Folder 50	AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)	1976-1988
Box 2	Folder 51	Tallulah Bankhead	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 52	Seymour Barab	n. d.
Box 2	Folder 53	Sherie Berk	1987
Box 2	Folder 54	Berkshire Public Theatre	1990-1991
Box 2	Folder 55	Berkshire Theatre Festival	1967-1988
Box 2	Folder 56	Brain/Mind Bulletin	1978
Box 2	Folder 57	California Shakespeare Festival	1978
Box 2	Folder 58	Martin Casella	1988
Box 2	Folder 59	Anton Chekhov	1990, b. d.
Box 2	Folder 60	Michael Chekhov	1971-1988
Box 3	Folder 1	"A Portrait of Misha: The Life and Artistic Accomplishments of Mikhail Alexandrovich Chekhov," by Lendley C. Black	1984
Box 12		"Letters of Anton Chekhov," translated by Michael Henry Heim in collaboration with Simon Karlinsky; Selection, Commentary & Introduction by Simon Karlinsky (volume)	1973
Box 3	Folder 2	Chekhov Studio and Centre	x
Box 3	Folder 3	Children's theatre	1989
Box 3	Folder 4	Children's World	1987
Box 3	Folder 5	Circle Rep	1978
Box 3	Folder 6	Clippings featuring or about Beatrice Straight	1969-1989
Box 3	Folder 7	Miscellaneous clippings	1967-1987
Box 3	Folder 8	"A World of Theater: Martha Coigney	1988
Box 3	Folder 9	Connecticut Arts Awards	1988
Box 3	Folder 10	The Conservancy	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 11	Peter W. Cookson, Jr.	[1978]
Box 3	Folder 12	Cornell University	1977, 1989
Box 3	Folder 13	Cornish School of Allied Arts	1975, 1978
Box 3	Folder 14	Dartington College of the Arts I: educational philosophy	1967-1989, n. d.
Box 3	Folder 15	Dartington College of the Arts II: publications	1975-1989
Box 3	Folder 16	Dartington College of the Arts III: brief sketches of individuals	n. d.
Box 7	Folder 3	Dartington: play review (play not named)	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 17	Death: A Concept Reborn	1978
Box 3	Folder 18	Democratic Party	1984
Box 3	Folder 19	East Indies Farm	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 20	Eastside Playhouse	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 21	Elmhirst, Dorothy (Whitney Straight), and Michael Chekhov	1939, 1969
Box 3	Folder 22	Elmhirst, Dorothy, talk at Dartington	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 23	Emmy Awards	[1978]
Box 3	Folder 24	Ensemble Studio Theatre	1988/1989
Box 3	Folder 25	Equity-League Welfare Trust Fund	[1976]
Box 3	Folder 26	Family Weekly	1978
Box 3	Folder 27	Fashion/Decorating	1970-1982
Box 3	Folder 28	Folie Douce	1972
Box 3	Folder 29	Golden Bough Theatre	1971
Box 3	Folder 30	HB Playwrights Foundation	1979
Box 3	Folder 31	George Ray Hill	1989-1990
Box 3	Folder 32	Hoboken Theater Company, Inc.	1989-1990
Box 3	Folder 33	Inner City Cultural Center: Neworld	1978
Box 3	Folder 34	Institute for Advanced Studies in Theatre Arts (IASTA)	1977, n. d.
Box 3	Folder 35	International Theatre Institute of the United States, Inc.	1977-1989
Box 3	Folder 36	"Journey to Ka Mountain," by Basil Langton	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 37	Franklyn Lenthall	1986
Box 3	Folder 38	Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 39	Love Theatre	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 40	Manhattan Theatre Club	1979
Box 3	Folder 41	Media Center for Children	1988
Box 3	Folder 42	Richard Morse Mime Theatre	1976-1979
Box 3	Folder 43	Musicals of the 1930s	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 44	National Repertory Theatre	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 45	The New Dramatists	1977, 1990, n. d.
Box 3	Folder 46	New Manufactory	1977
Box 3	Folder 47	New Marlborough Historical Society	1979
Box 3	Folder 48	The New School	1989
Box 3	Folder 49	New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets	1978
Box 3	Folder 50	Northwood Institute	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 51	Jay O'Callahan	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 52	Old Vic	1946
Box 3	Folder 53	Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.	1981, 1988
Box 3	Folder 54	Oscars	1978
Box 3	Folder 55	"'Our Town' Remembered," Thomas Coley	1982
Box 3	Folder 56	Antoinette Perry Awards	1972
Box 3	Folder 57	Poetic Philosophy	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 58	Poetry: clippings	1987
Box 3	Folder 59	Poetry: Elizabeth B. and Robert Browning	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 60	Poetry: T. S. Eliot	[post-1951]
Box 3	Folder 61	Poetry: Thomas Hardy	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 62	Poetry: Edna St. Vincent Millay	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 63	Poetry: selected poets	n. d.
Box 7	Folder 4-5	Poetry: selected poets	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 64	Poetry: Victorian poets	1984
Box 3	Folder 65	"Poets as Prophets: Living at the Edge of Consciousness"	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 66	"Press Cuttings" and "The Musical Cure"	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 67	Dory Previn	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 68	Reader's Repertory Company	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 69	Roundabout Theatre	1974
Box 3	Folder 70	"Saturday Theatre for Children"	1990
Box 3	Folder 71	Shakespeare & Company	1978
Box 3	Folder 72	Shakespeare's Globe	1990
Box 3	Folder 73	Ravi Shankar	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 74	Uday Shankar [see also correspondence Mohan Khokar]	1977, 1983
Box 3	Folder 75	Sharon Playhouse	1974
Box 3	Folder 76	Stanislavsky	1964, n. d.
Box 3	Folder 77	Arnold Sundgaard	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 78	"Eve" [Symington]	1973
Box 3	Folder 79	Theatre clippings	1990
Box 3	Folder 80	Theatre Communications Group	1989-90
Box 3	Folder 81	Theatre Hall of Fame	1972
Box 3	Folder 82	Theatre Institute at Storm King	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 83	Theatre of the Open Eye	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 84	Theatreworks I	1986-1989
Box 3	Folder 85	Theatreworks II	1990
Box 3	Folder 86	Theatreworks III	1990-1991
Box 3	Folder 87	"A Visit From St. Nicholas," Clement Moore [facsimile]	[1849]
Box 3	Folder 88	Edith Wharton and the Mount	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 89	Joan White English Theatre School	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 90	Getrude Vanderbilt Whitney	n. d.
Box 3	Folder 91	William C. Whitney Foundation	1970-1977
Box 3	Folder 92	Whitney Award	1978
Box 4	Folder 1	Women in Foundations	1971
Box 4	Folder 2	Michael Young	n. d.
		Publicity materials [(B)=Beatrice participated, (P)=Peter Cookson participated
Box 4	Folder 3	"All My Sons," by Arthur Miller: clippings, programs, reviews (B)	1974
Box 4	Folder 4	"Andros Targets": clipping (B)	[1977]
Box 4	Folder 5	"Beacon Hill": clippings, review, Irish dialect instructions (B)	1975-1978
Box 4	Folder 6	"Bicentennial Minutes": press release (B)	1976
Box 4	Folder 7	"Bloodline": shooting schedule, cast list, unit list, reviews, clippings (B)	1978-1979
Box 4	Folder 8	"Can Can": program, clippings, reviews (P)	1953
Box 4	Folder 9	"Checkout": program, clipping	1988
Box 4	Folder 10	"The Crucible": clipping (B)	[1971]
Box 4	Folder 11	"Dain Curse": call sheets, clippings, reviews (B)	1977-1978
Box 4	Folder 12	"Don't Ride the Clutch": broadside	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 13	"Eastward in Eden": clipping (B)	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 14	"Endless Love": clipping (B)	[1981]
Box 4	Folder 15	An Evening With Beatrice Straight (Houston, Texas): clipping, press release (B)	1988
Box 4	Folder 16	"Everything in the Garden": program (B)	[1967]
Box 4	Folder 17	"Faces of Woman in Opera": program (B)	1988
Box 4	Folder 18	"Festival Thirteen": full-page advertisement	1979
Box 4	Folder 19	"The Formula": full-page advertisement, review, clippings (B)	1980
Box 8	Folder 3	"The Formula": broadside	[1980]
Box 4	Folder 20	"Four Winds": publicity pamphlet, clippings, reviews (P)	1957
Box 4	Folder 21	"Frozen Man," J. D. Feigelson (B)	1957
Box 4	Folder 22	"The Garden Party": press release (B)	1985
Box 4	Folder 23	"Ghosts": press release, program, program notes, clippings, leaflet, reviews, "Ghost Story," by Rabindranath Tagore (B)	1973
Box 4	Folder 24	"Gideon": program	1962
Box 4	Folder 25	"The Girl of the Golden West": clippings, reviews (P)	1957
Box 4	Folder 26	"The Glass Menagerie": clippings, 2 programs (B)	1980
Box 4	Folder 27	"The Grand Tour": clippings (B)	1951
Box 4	Folder 28	"Hamlet": program, clipping (B)	1979
Box 4	Folder 29	"The Heiress": program (B)	[1948]
Box 4	Folder 30	"Henry V": program	1976
Box 4	Folder 31	"Ichabod": broadside	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 32	"The Innocents": programs, clippings, reviews (B)	1950
Box 4	Folder 33	"Killer on Board": press release, clipping (B)	1977
Box 4	Folder 34	"King Lear": clipping (B)	1953
Box 4	Folder 35	"King's Crossing": clippings (B)	1981-1982
Box 4	Folder 36	"Lend Me a Tenor": program	1989
Box 4	Folder 37	"Light Up The Sky": program, clipping (B)	1968
Box 4	Folder 38	"Lila's Island": story	1986
Box 4	Folder 39	"The Lion in Winter": programs, review, clipping (B)	1966, 1977
Mapcase Folder 4		"The Lion in Winter": broadside (B)	[1976]
Box 4	Folder 40	"A Little Night Music": program	1990
Box 4	Folder 41	"MacBeth": sleep walking speech (B)	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 42	Maine Theatre Arts Festival: program (B)	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 43	March of Dimes Gala: clippings (B)	1986
Mapcase Folder 4		Marie R: broadside (B)	1972
Box 4	Folder 44	"Mary Stuart": program	1979
Box 4	Folder 45	"Message for Margaret": clippings (P)	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 46	Metropolitan Museum of Art: clippings re answering machine message recorded by B. Straight (B)	1978
Box 4	Folder 47	"Network": clippings, reviews, press release, academy award notices (B)	1977
Box 4	Folder 48	"Night of 100 Stars": full-page advertisement (B)	1977
Box 4	Folder 49	"Old Times": contact sheet for theatre, program, clippings, reviews (B)	1977
Box 8	Folder 4	"Old Times": broadside (B)	[1977]
Box 4	Folder 50	"The Palace at 4 A. M.": program, clippings, reviews (B)	1972
Box 4	Folder 51	"Patterns": reviews, clippings (B)	1955-1956
Box 4	Folder 52	"People Like Us": staff and crew lists, reviews (B)	1990
Box 4	Folder 53	"Phèdre": show cards, programs, notes, clippings, reviews (B)	1965-1966
Box 4	Folder 54	"Playboy of the Western World": clipping, Theatre Arts, 9/1946 (2 copies) (B)	1946
Box 7	Folder 7	"Playboy of the Western World": clipping (B)	1946
Box 4	Folder 55	"Poltergeist": program, clippings, reviews (B)	1982
Box 7	Folder 6	"Poor Bitos": clippings, reviews	1982
Box 4	Folder 56	"Private Eye": clipping (B)	1977
Box 4	Folder 57	"The Promise": cast list, staff list, list of contact people, mailing lists, board of directors list, production notes, clippings, reviews (B)	1977-1979
Box 4	Folder 58	"The Right Honourable Gentleman": list of actors, programs, clippings, reviews, broadsides, box office statements (B)	1966, 1971
Mapcase Folder 2		"The Right Honourable Gentleman": set plans, broadside, sheet musicc (B)	[1971]
Box 4	Folder 59	"Robert Kennedy and His Times": printed sheets from CBS, call sheets, production notes and schedules (B)	1983-1984
Box 4	Folder 60	Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Fund Benefit: invitation, portrait of E. R.	1987
Box 4	Folder 61	"Second Chance": call sheets, notes from cast and staff, printed images, production schedules (B)	1983
Box 4	Folder 62	"Shadows Tremble" (Playhouse 90): press releases (B)	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 63	"Sing Me No Lullaby": program (B)	1954
Box 4	Folder 64	"Stanley,": clipping (B)	1970
Box 4	Folder 65	"A Streetcar Named Desire": press releases, clippings, programs, reviews (B)	1967-1970
Box 7	Folder 8	"A Streetcar Named Desire": clippings album (B)	1967-1970
Box 4	Folder 66	"A Sunday With Beatrice Straight": invitation, program (B)	1978
Box 4	Folder 67	"The Tennis Game": clipping (B. helped get started, did not act in this production)	1978
Box 4	Folder 68	"This Wooden O": clipping (B)	1982
Box 4	Folder 69	"Timbuktu!": clippings (B)	1978
Box 4	Folder 70	"Tobacco Road": program	1977
Box 4	Folder 71	"Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's MacBeth": programs	1979
Box 4	Folder 72	"Trial of Poznan": clipping (P)	1957
Box 4	Folder 73	"Twelfth Night": clipping (B)	1940
Box 4	Folder 74	"The Underground Reporter": clipping (B)	1943
Box 4	Folder 75	"Waltz of the Toreadors": reviews (B)	1959
Box 4	Folder 76	"Who Am I?": program, clippings (production of Young World Foundation [one of B.'s projects])	1972
Box 8	Folder 6	"Who Am I?": broadsides	[1972]
Box 4	Folder 77	"The Winter's Tale": program	1990
Box 4	Folder 78	"Wonder Woman": clippings (B)	1977-1978
Box 4	Folder 79	"The World of Darkness": clipping (B)	1977
		Scripts [(B) indicates performance/production in which B. Straight took part)]
Box 4	Folder 80	"An Act of Love," by Willis Cooke (Peter W. Cookson)	1985
Box 4	Folder 81	"The Actor," by Peter Cookson	1971
Box 4	Folder 82	"An Actor's Dream," by Peter Cookson	1987
Box 4	Folder 83	"The American," dramatized by Ellen Van Volkenburg from the romance by Henry James	n. d.
Box 4	Folder 84	"Ay and What Then?" P. W. Ceigh (Peter W. Cookson)	1989
Box 4	Folder 85	"Bedroom Farce," Gary Anthony (Peter W. Cookson)	1968
Box 5	Folder 1	"Bedroom Farce," Gary Anthony (Peter W. Cookson)	1968
Box 5	Folder 2	"A Bit of Fluff," Peter Cookson	1985
Box 9	Folder 1-3	"The Borrowers": clippings, scripts (B)	1974
Box 5	Folder 3	"Both Our Houses," Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 4	"Contradictions," P. W. Ceigh	1988
Box 5	Folder 5	"Coo," Peter Cookson	1987
Box 5	Folder 6	"Dr. D & the 10 Speed Bicycle," Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 7	"Eastward in Eden: The Love Story of Emily Dickinson," by Dorothy Gardner (B)	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 8	"Epic That Never Was" (B)	1978
Box 5	Folder 9	"Expecting Max" Peter Cookson	1983
Box 5	Folder 10	"A Fair Exchange" Peter Cookson	1984
Box 5	Folder 11	"For Love or Money" Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 12	"Frozen Man," J. D. Feigelson (B)	1984
Box 5	Folder 13	"Ghosts"	[1973]
Box 5	Folder 14	"The Glass Menagerie," Tennessee Williams (B)	1975
Box 5	Folder 15	"Grace at Table Six," Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 16	"The Hallucinations of Paul Tremaine," Peter Cookson	1984
Box 5	Folder 17	"Henderson's Head," by Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 18	"Ibsen's Life and Times"	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 19	"The Magic Pilot"	1944
Box 5	Folder 20	"Mania!" P. W. Cookson	n. d.
Box 5	Folder 21	"Maniac!" P. W. Cookson	1980
Box 5	Folder 22	"Memories of Midnight," Sidney Shelton (B)	1991
Box 5	Folder 23	"The Palace at 4 A. M." Howard Moss (B)	1967
Box 5	Folder 24	"Palomino," Danielle Steele (B)	1991
Box 5	Folder 25	"Phèdre," by Jean Racine (B)	1965
Box 5	Folder 26	"Pigeons," Peter Cookson	1986
Box 5	Folder 27	"Poltergeist," Steven Spielberg (B)	1981
Box 5	Folder 28	"The Right honourable Gentleman," M. Bradley-Dyne (prompt script) (B)	1964
Box 6	Folder 1	"The Right Honourable Gentleman" (revised version) (B)	1965
Box 6	Folder 2	"Robert Kennedy and His Times" (B)	1983
Box 6	Folder 3	"Second Chance" (B)	1983
Box 6	Folder 4	"Stanley," Gary Anthony (Peter W. Cookson) [2 versions] (B)	[1970]
Box 6	Folder 5	"A Streetcar Named Desire," Tennessee Williams (2 acting editions) (B)	[1967-1970]
Box 6	Folder 6	"Tell Me Later," Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 6	Folder 7	"Three Million Rosebuds," Peter Cookson (1st draft)	1978
Box 6	Folder 8	"Three Million Rosebuds," Peter Cookson (completed copy)	1978
Box 6	Folder 9	"Two Acts of Murder," Willis Cooke (Peter Cookson)	1985
Box 6	Folder 10	"Two Acts of Murder" (second copy)	1986
Box 6	Folder 11	"Unique Species," Peter Cookson	1984
Box 6	Folder 12	"Used people," Todd Graff (B)	1990
Box 6	Folder 13	"Where Evil Dwells," Robert A. Suhosky and Peter W. Cookson (second revised rewrite)	1979
Box 6	Folder 14	"Where Evil Dwells," R. A. S. and P. W. C. (third revised rewrite)	1979
Box 6	Folder 15	"Who's Who in Connecticut," P. W. Cookson	1987
		Proposals
Box 6	Folder 16	"The Bride, the Swans and the Mountain Lion," Michael Straight	n. d.
Box 6	Folder 17	"Once Upon a Castle," Beatrice Straight and Brian Froud	n. d.
Box 6	Folder 18	"The Saving Circle," Ingo Swann	n. d.
		Series IV. Awards/Honors
Box 6	Folder 19	Academy Awards	1977
Box 6	Folder 20	American Biographical Institute	1989
Box 6	Folder 21	American Biographical Institute (small medal)	n. d.
Box 6	Folder 22	American Biographical Institute (large medal)	1989
Box 6	Folder 23	"Distinguished Women of Northwood Institute"	1978
Box 6	Folder 24	The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library medal	n. d.
Box 6	Folder 25	Screen Actors Guild	1987
Box 6	Folder 26	"Stars of the New York Stage, 1870-1970"	1970
Box 6	Folder 27	Tony Awards (1977 clipping)	1953
Box 6	Folder 28	U. S. Presidential inauguration invitation	1965
Box 6	Folder 29	"Who's Who in the East"	1983/1984
Box 6	Folder 29	"Who's Who in the East"	1986/1987
Box 6	Folder 29	"Who's Who in the East"	1991/1992
Box 6	Folder 30	"Who's Who in the Theatre" (bound volume)	1952
Box 6	Folder 31	"Who's Who in the World"	1984/1985
Box 6	Folder 32	"Who's Who of American women"	1977/1978
Box 6	Folder 32	"Who's Who of American women"	1979-1980
Box 6	Folder 32	"Who's Who of American women"	1981/1982
Box 6	Folder 32	"Who's Who of American women"	1983/1984
		Series V. Business Materials
		Business miscellany
Box 9	Folder 4	Contracts/Agreements	1971-1989
Box 9	Folder 5	Receipts/Invoices	1973, 1977
Box 9	Folder 6	Business Miscellaneous	1973, 1986-1989
		Personal miscellany
Box 9	Folder 7	Beatrice Cruise: performance of "Deadly Voyage"	1977
Box 9	Folder 8	Beatrice Miscellaneous: astrological chart, horoscope, miscellany	1978-1989, n. d.
		Peter Cookson materials
Box 9	Folder 9	"And Never Asking Why," Peter Cookson ("words for music")	1975
Box 9	Folder 10-14	"Book," Peter Cookson: draft	n. d.
Box 9	Folder 15	"Henderson's Head," Peter Cookson: miscellaneous correspondence and material	1971-1974
Box 9	Folder 16	"Henderson's Head": uncorrected proofs (2)	1973
Box 9	Folder 17	Peter Cookson on Berkshire Theatre Fund	n. d.
Box 9	Folder 18	Peter Cookson reminiscences	1973
		Series VI. Visual Images
		Photographs
Box 11	Folder 1	Beatrice in India	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 2	Beatrice: portraits	n. d., 1977
Box 11	Folder 3	"All My Sons" (B)	1974
Box 11	Folder 4	Lewis Allen, Beatrice, ?	[1975?]
Box 11	Folder 5	Alley Theatre event, Houston, Texas (B)	1990
Box 11	Folder 6	"Andros Targets": Beatrice, Richard Kiley (B)	1977
Box 11	Folder 7	"Barretts of Wimpole Street" (B)	n. d.
Box 7	Folder 9	"Barretts of Wimpole Street" (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 8	"Beacon Hill" (B)	[1975-1978]
Box 11	Folder 9	"Book of Hours" (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 10	Michael Chekhov	1940, n. d.
Box 11	Folder 11	Chekhov Group; Ridgefield, Connecticut	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 12	Chekhov Studio	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 13	Beatrice and Peter Cookson	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 14	Peter Cookson and Arlene Francis, Wendy Hiller, and Gail Storm	1945, n. d.
Box 11	Folder 15	Dartington Hall and Chekhov Theatre (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 16	Dartington Hall campus	1935
Box 11	Folder 17	Deadly Voyage	1977
Box 11	Folder 18	"Eastward in Eden" with Onslow Stevens, Beatrice Marley, Edwin Perone (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 19	Mother (Dorothy W. S. Elmhirst), Deidre, Mishe (Michael Chekhov), Xzania at Dartington	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 20	"Ghosts" (B)	[1973]
Box 11	Folder 21	"The Glass Menagerie" (B)	[1980]
Box 11	Folder 22	Globe Theatre tour in England with Sam Wanamaker (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 23	"Hamlet" (B)	[1979]
Box 11	Folder 24	"Heartbreak House," by G. B. Shaw with Larry Gates, Mary Lou Taylor, Peter Cookson (B)	n. d.
Box 7	Folder 10	"Heartbreak House" with Larry Gates (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 25	"The Heiress" with Wendy Hiller, Peter Cookson, Basil Rathbone (B)	n. d.
Box 7	Folder 11	"The Heiress" with Basil Rathbone (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 26	"The Innocents" with Iris Mann, David Cole, Isabel Elson (B)	[1950]
Box 7	Folder 12	The Innocents" (B)	[1950]
Box 11	Folder 27	"King Lear" with Yul Bryner, Hurd Hatfield, Ford Rainy, Mary Lou Taylor, John Flynn, Grael Regan (B)	[1953]
Box 11	Folder 28	"Kings Crossing" with Bradford Dillman, Mary Frann, Linda Hamilton, Dorothy Meyer, Marilyn Jones, Daniel Zippi, Doreen Clark (B)	[1981-1982]
Box 11	Folder 29	"Land of Fame" with Albert Bell, Norman Rose (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 30	"Long Way Home" with James Daly, Frances Heflin (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 31	"MacBeth" with Michael Redgrave (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 32	"Network" with William Holden (B)	1976
Box 11	Folder 33	"Network" Academy Award photos with Sylvester Stallone, Muhammed Ali, Sidney Lumet (B)	1977
Box 11	Folder 34	N. Y. S. Department of Agriculture presentation to Mayor Koch (B)	n. d.
Mapcase Folder 3		Night of 100 Stars (2 photographs)	1982
Box 11	Folder 35	"Nun's Story" with Audrey Hepburn, Colleen Dewhurst (B)	[1951]
Box 11	Folder 36	"Old Times" with Raúl Julia and Irene Worth (B)	[1977]
Box 7	Folder 13	"Old Times" with Raúl Julia and Irene Worth (B)	[1977]
Box 11	Folder 37	Old Vic stars with Gertrude Lawrence	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 38	"Patterns" with Van Heflin (B)	[1955-]1956
Box 7	Folder 13	Gregory Peck on the beach	1946
Box 11	Folder 39	"Phèdre" (B)	1965-1966
Box 7	Folder 15	"Phèdre (B)	[1965-1966]
Box 11	Folder 40	Phoenix production, N. Y. C. (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 41	"Phone call from a Stranger" with James Mason, Eli Wallach(?), Wendy Hiller (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 42	"Playboy of the Western World" with Gregory Peck (B)	1946
Box 11	Folder 43	"Poltergeist" (B)	1982
Box 11	Folder 44	"The Possessed" with John Flynn, Woodrow Chambliss (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 45	Tony Randall, Eli Wallach, Beatrice	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 46	"The Right Honourable Gentleman" with Henderson Forsythe, Sarah Badel, Marie Wallace, Francis Bethencourt; Edward Mulhare, Carolyn Lagerfelt (B)	[1971]
Box 11	Folder 47	"Robert Kennedy and His Times" (B)	1983-1984
Box 11	Folder 48	Edward G. Robinson (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 49	"Second Chance" with John Travolta (B)	1983
Box 11	Folder 50	Uday Shankar	1935-1936
Box 11	Folder 51	"Silken Affair" with David Niven, Geraldine Page, [Terry Thomas] (B)	[1956]
Box 11	Folder 52	Skowhegan Dinner with Gerda Vanderbilt, Beatrice, Michael Valenti	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 53	"Streetcar Named Desire" (B)	[1967-1970]
Box 11	Folder 54	"Two of a Kind" with Charles Durning, Oliver Reed (B)	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 55	Beatrice and Michael Valenti	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 56	Theatreworks/USA (B)	1986
Box 11	Folder 57	"Who Am I?" (B)	[1972]
Box 7	Folder 15	Beatrice: portrait	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 58	Unidentified roles (B)/set	n. d.
Box 7	Folder 16	Beatrice unidentified role	n. d.
Box 11	Folder 59	Family and friends: Dorothy [W. S. E.], Flora, Willard Straight, Beatrice, unidentified	n. d.
Mapcase Folder 4		Two interiors: "picture from bedroom front/east wall	n. d.
		Drawings
Box 8	Folder 1-3	Sketches: costumes	n. d.
Box 8	Folder 7	Sketches: horses, artist unidentified	n. d.
Mapcase Folder 1		Dartington Hall theatre plans	n. d.
Mapcase Folder 2		Sketches: "Right Honourable Gentleman"	n. d.
Mapcase Folder 3		Two chalk drawings [Hans Schaukar(sp?)]	[1929]
Mapcase Folder 4		Sketch: Beatrice Straight Cookson	n. d.
Mapcase Folder 4		Sketch: unidentified man [Michael Chekhov?]	1929
Mapcase Folder 4		Sketch: set at Dartington Hall theatre	n. d.
		Films
F 1055	F-1055	"Nevada 1949"	1949
Box 13	F-1056	"The Garden Party"	n. d.
Box 13	F-1057	"Bali Reel 1 Dup"	n. d.
Box 13	F-1058	Greece?: very few shots of Bea - mostly landscape	n. d.
Box 13	F-1059	Bea's trip to Russia (she is not seen on film)	n. d.
Box 13	F-1060	Children at the Chalet	n. d.
Box 13	F-1061-1062	2 films, unclear which is which:	n. d.
		Scope and Contents -India - to be spliced -Uday Shankar (to be spliced)
Box 13	F-1063	India: Bea, Deidre Duprey, very little of Bea - landscape	n. d.
Box 13	F-1064-1067	4 films, unclear which is which:	n. d.
		Scope and Contents -Children at Dartington Hall -England, Chalet, Dartington Hall -Not identified [travel: U. S. or India possibly Old Parsonage Farm] -[Travel:] Malabar, Cochin fisherman, Bombay, Udaipur (No. 2)
Box 13	F-1068	Eloise	n. d.
Box 13	F-1069	No identification	n. d.
Box 13	F-1070	Not identified	n. d.
		↓ 3 films below deteriorating ↓
Box 14	F-1052	[Travel: India:] Fate pur, Sikri, Ellora, Ajanta, Almora (No. 4)	n. d.
Box 14	F-1053	Uday Shankar - original and duplicates	1934
Box 14	F-1054	[Travel:] Gibraltar, Cairo, Board Ship, Cawn Anir	n. d.
		Series VII. Sound Recordings
		Audio tapes
Box 12		Accompaniments: 260 End of Caro Meo Ben, 265 Begin Ney Ver De Sehn, 2/35 Amarillo	n. d.
Box 12		Beatrice Straight	n. d.
Box 12		Lady MacBeth "Sleepwalking Scene"	n. d.
Box 12		No Dialogue, need slate	n. d.
Box 12		"Right Honourable Gentleman" tape B	[1971]
Box 12		"Stanley" (2 reels)	n. d.
Box 12		"Who Am I?"	n. d.
Box 12		Not identified	n. d.
Box 12		Amor Ti Vieta	1955
Box 12		Barry Heard	n. d.
		78's
Sound recording 1	SR-1	Music from "The Promise" (B)	1979
Sound recording 2	SR-2	Peter Cookson, London, "demo"	1955
Sound recording 3456	SR-3-6	Peter Cookson	1955
		Series VIII. Personal Materials
		Appointment books
Box 10	Folder 1-15	Spiral notebooks and date books (15)	1971-1989
		Miscellaneous personal
Box 7	Folder 1	Certificate from flight on Concorde	1978
Box 8	Folder 1-3	Sketches: costuming ideas	n. d.
	MU-1086, MU-1087	2 wicker suitcases

Contents

Beatrice Straight papers, [ca. 1925]-1990. Collection Number: 4496

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Cornell University Library

Beatrice Straight papers, [ca. 1925]-1990.
Collection Number: 4496

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library