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Identifier |
Centennial_00382 |
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Title |
Del Rey Players: Joan of Lorraine, 1956 |
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Creator |
Los Angeles Airport Photography |
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Date Created |
1956 |
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Subject (Topic) |
College theater; Theatrical productions; Actors; College students; Student activities |
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Subject (Name) |
Del Rey Players; Hart, Dolores, 1938-; Denver, Bob, 1935-2005; Hebert, Dick; Loyola University of Los Angeles; Marymount College (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
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Subject (Place) |
Westchester (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
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Type |
Image |
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Form/Genre |
Photographs |
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Physical Description |
1 photograph: black and white |
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Institution |
Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University |
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Country of Creation |
US |
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Copyright Statement |
http://library.lmu.edu/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/#d.en.3004 |
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Copyright Holder |
Loyola Marymount University |
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Collection Identifier |
Loyola Marymount University Archives |
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Item/Call Number |
Photo prints 7E5H |
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Description |
Dick Hebert, Director of the play, going over script with Dolores Hart and Bob Denver. |
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Historical Background |
The Del Rey Players is an all student run theatre company started in 1931 to give Loyola students the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the production process. It offers opportunities for students in directing, designing, writing, set construction, sewing costumes, house managing, stage crew, and performing. The Del Rey Players is the oldest student organization on campus. When Dolores Hart (aka Dolores Hicks) was a freshman student majoring in Theater Arts at Marymount College in 1956, she played the feminine lead in "Joan of Lorraine" at Loyola University. Hart made her screen debut as an actress in the 1957 film "Loving You" with Elvis Presley. At the height of her career in 1963, Dolores Hart became a Roman Catholic nun at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut. Reverend Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B., has been the Abbey's Dean of Education since 1972. |
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Cited In |
Starr, Kevin. Loyola Marymount University, 1911-2011: A Centennial History. Los Angeles: Loyola Marymount University, 2011. |
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Image Caption |
"The 1956 production of Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine featured students Dolores Hart (center) and Bob Denver (right), who would soon become film and television stars. Hart gave up her rising film career, however, to enter the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, where, as Mother Dolores Hart, OSB, she served as prioress" --Starr, K., Loyola Marymount University 1911-2011. |
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Additional Notes |
Title supplied by cataloger. |
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Metacollection Identifier |
http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu |
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Project note |
Centennial |
Loyola Marymount University Historical Photograph Collection
