[Photographs]: Actor Training Lessons

ROSENSTEIN, Sophie

Edité par [Warner Bros, 1940

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A collection of 16 black and white photographs measuring 8" x 10", some with captions and photographers stamps on the verso. Near fine with some edgewear. A small collection of photographs depicting actor training classes in the 1940s. The images show young, well-dressed actors and actresses during diction, poise, posture, and other acting lessons. The diction lessons were performed by Warner Brothers coach, Sophie Rosenstein, who was the resident coach for Warner Brothers and later Paramount Studios and the second wife of actor Gig Young. The photographs show Rosenstein pointing out linguistic charts on a blackboard and having her students using a lit candle for diction lessons. One caption reads, "strange as it seems this is the way to learn to speak properly. Warner Bros. dramatic coach Sophie Rosenstein shows proper breath control to June Millarde, Ann Corcoran, and Ray Montgomery. Other images show actresses with books on their head walking across a stage and two actors recording a vocal scene. One interesting set of photographs shows women choreographing a fight seen for *Where Are Your Children*. Other actors and actresses including in this series are Maris Wrixon, Ann Edmonds, Mildred Coles, Lucia Carroll, Peggy Diggins, Joyce Reynolds, Harry Lewis, Jean Ames, Bill Edwards, Gale Storm, Evelyn Eaton, Anne Howard, Ethelreda Leopold, among others. Some of the images bear the stamp of Fawcett Publications, primarily known as paperback publishers, and reasonable conjecture might be that they were intended to illustrate a book, but we have yet to identify the title, and the possibility certainly exists that the book was never published. Rosenstein has co-authored a book, *Modern Acting: A Manual* for Samuel French in 1936, and this may have been prepared for a re-issue that was published in 1947. An interesting collection of photographs depicting a state-of-the-art acting class in the 1940s.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: [Photographs]: Actor Training Lessons
• Éditeur: [Warner Bros
• Date de parution: 1940
• Reliure: Unbound
• État de l'article: Near Fine