Finding Aid for the Vanessa Brown Papers, ca. 1950-1988
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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Finding Aid for the Vanessa Brown Papers, ca. 1950-1988
Collection number: 1552
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Dan Luckenbill, November 1988
- Additions by:
- Simon Elliott and Lilace Hatayama, January 2002
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, April 2002
© 2002 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Vanessa Brown Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1950-1988
Collection number: 1552
Creator: Brown, Vanessa, 1928-
Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
5 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Vanessa Brown (1928- ) was born in Vienna, Austria. She appeared in Broadway plays and films. In 1962, she became a writer-coordinator
for the
Voice of America. She worked as a correspondent with the
Los Angeles Times Service (1970-74), and with the National Public Radio (1973-74). The collection contains interviews with Brown, correspondence,
scrapbooks, and cassette tapes of classes taught by Brown.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
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Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
Additional Physical Form Available
A copy of the original version of this online finding aid is available at the UCLA Department of Special Collections for in-house
consultation and may be obtained for a fee. Please contact:
- Public Services Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Vanessa Brown, 1988-90.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vanessa Brown Papers (Collection 1552). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Brown was born on March 24, 1928 in Vienna, Austria; came to the U.S. in 1938; BA, UCLA, 1949; appeared in Broadway plays,
As you Like it (1950) and
The Seven Year Itch (1952-54); appeared in films, including
Youth Runs Wild (1941),
The Heiress (1948), and
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952); married Mark R. Sandrich, 1959; became writer-coordinator for
Voice of America in 1962; correspondent with
Los Angeles Times Service, 1970-74, and National Public Radio, 1973-74; writer, KTLA-TV, 1972-74; worked for presidential campaigns of Adlai
Stevenson, 1956, and John F. Kennedy, 1960; artist with one-woman show at Edgardo Costa Gallery, Beverly Hills, California;
founder, American Acting Company.
Scope and Content
Collection contains bibliographical reference works and other books in which Vanessa Brown is mentioned. Also includes interviews
with Brown, correspondence, scrapbooks, and cassette tapes of classes taught by Brown.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Brown, Vanessa, 1928- --Archives.
Actors--United States--Archival resources.
Motion picture actors and actresses--California--Los Angeles--Arc
hival resources.
Women radio writers--United States--Archival resources.
Container List
Cassette tapes [oversize box]
Box 2
Cassette tapes of classes [further unidentified].
Physical Description: Oversize box.
Box 1, Folder 1
Cosmopolitan, March 1953. Vanessa Brown, Her Brains Didn't Get In Her Way.
Published references to Vanessa Brown
Box 1, Folder 3
Photocopies of published biographical references to Vanessa Brown.
Box 1
Kelley, Kitty.
His Way: The Unauthorized Biography Of Frank Sinatra. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1986.
Physical Description: Reference to Vanessa Brown, p.215.
Political Interests, Etc.
Box 1, Folder 2
Political correspondence.
Box 1
Sperber, A.M. Murrow: His Life And Times. New York: Freundlich Books, 1986.
Physical Description: Inscribed: To Vanessa Brown, a wonderful friend - with thanks and affection - all the best,
[illegible] ('A.M. Sperber') September 16, 1986.
Box 1
Johnson, Walter, ed.
The Papers Of Adlai E. Stevenson. vol.6. Boston and Toronto: Little,
Brown and Company, c. 1976.
Physical Description: Prints letter to Vanessa Brown, p.38.
Box 1
Feldman, Ruth Duskin.
Whatever Happened To The Quiz Kids? Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1982.
Physical Description: Inscribed: To Vanessa With appreciation and affection and hope for a renewed friendship - Ruth
Duskin Feldman. Has chapter on Vanessa Brown
Memorabilia [Oversize Box]
Box 3
Scrapbooks, ca. 1949-1950.
Physical Description: Oversize box.
Box 4
Scrapbook, ca. 1959-1951.
Physical Description: Oversize box.
Box 5
Scrapbook, ca. 1952-1953.
Physical Description: Oversize box.
Box 6
Scrapbook ca. 1955-1959.
Physical Description: Oversize box.
Box 1
Nathan, George Jean.
The Theatre In The Fifties. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
Physical Description: Reference to Vannessa Brown, p.77.
Box 1
Goldberg, Hyman. Her Brains Didn't Get In Her Way In: Cosmopolitan, March 1953, p.24.
Vanessa Brown Productions
Box 3
What To Be--medley of six programs [video tape].
