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Playbill featuring Marcel Marceau from the William Harris Papers
The William B. Harris Papers are a collection of theater ephemera collected over a period of 30 years. After graduating from college William Harris moved to New York to become a writer. He would eventually be the theater editor for SoHo Weekly News and managing editor of Theatre Crafts Magazine. In the process of doing this work he would accumulate his theater collection. Mr. Harris would die of a massive coronary at the age of 49 on July 27, His brother John would donate the collection to Marymount Manhattan College, which has a dance and theater program.
Mr. Harris’s papers are divided into eight separate genres; three are not in the archives at Marymount Manhattan College. The remaining five include unpublished scripts, photographs, posters, one videocassette and the largest part of the collection is in series #2. Series #2 contains 4, folders primarily newspaper clipping of reviews, playbills, photographs, postcards, advertisements for performances, as well as personal correspondence. This playbill from of Marcel Marceau is part of the collection.
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Universally considered the world's greatest contemporary mime artist, Marcel Marceau was a true legend.
Born Marcel Mangel on March 22, , in the French town of Strasbourg, on the French-German border, Marceau was inspired as a young child by the great stars of silent film. The comic brilliance of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, fascinated him, but it was Charlie Chaplin that made the biggest and most lasting impression. After his father took him to see City Lights, Marceau began to imitate Chaplin immediately. The young Marceau would perform his imitations of Chaplin and other characters for the neighborhood children, and his entertaining became very popular. (Ironically, in spite of the many Hollywood stars Marceau would later come to know personally, he would meet Chaplin only once, and only by chance, at the Orly airport outside Paris in , upon his return from shooting a film in Rome.)
It was as a young man when Marcel took Marceau as his new surname. He and his older brother Alain had moved to Limoges early into World War II, and worked for the French resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. The name change helped hide
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Marcel Marceau, born March 22, in Strasbourg, France, became one of the most famous mimes in the world. He created his own school, Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, in , for the development of the mime arts. Bip, was the white-faced character, based on the French Pierrot, he played on stage and screen.
Profile
Mime artist. Marcel Mangel was born March 22, , in Strasbourg, NE France. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and with Etienne Decroux. In he founded the Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau, developing the art of mime, becoming himself the leading exponent. His white-faced character, Bip, based on the 19th-c French Pierrot, a melancholy vagabond, is famous from his appearances on stage and television throughout the world.
Among the many original performances he has devised are the mime-drama Don Juan (), and the ballet Candide (). He has also created about pantomimes, such as The Creation of the World. In he became head of the Ecole de Mimodrame Marcel Marceau.
Marcel Marceau died on September 22, in Cahors, France.
- Name: Marcel Marceau
- Birth Year:
- Birth date: March 22,
- Birth City: Strasbourg
- Birth Country: Fra
First issued by Caedmon Records in , this conversation on mime, recorded in English by Marcel Marceau and the American writer William Fifield, is an in-depth look at Marceau's art. In this recording, Marcel Marceau traces the history of mime and discusses his own role in its renewed popularity. Calling mime the art of "making the invisible visible," he shares how he developed his signature character, Bip, and began performing all around the world, a tour de force career that has lasted for more than 50 years. He speaks with eloquence about the purpose of his art, which, he says, is to show how life is. And branching off to his interests and experiences off the stage, he talks about his paintings, his belief in the universality of man, and his life during World War II, when he took part in the French Resistance and also had to hide from the Gestapo because his father was Jewish.
Digitally remastered and now available as a CD and in an MP3 format, "Marcel Marceau Speaks" was released again by Times Two Audio on the occasion of Marcel Marceau's October tour of the United States.
For additional information on Marceau: The Marcel Marceau Foundation
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