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Ben Hecht papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Hecht
Abstract
Works, correspondence, and papers of novelist, playwright, and screenwriter Ben Hecht, and also papers of his wife Rose Caylor Hecht (novelist) and daughter Jenny Hecht (actress).
Dates:
1879-1983
Elaine Madlener papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Madlener
Abstract
Research material for a biography of Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Material related to Madlener’s Grant Hospital committee work for two benefit performances by Karajan in 1955 and 1965, and manuscripts by British author Charles Langbridge Morgan.
Dates:
1916-1966; Majority of material found within 1944-1965