29 album pages, each with thirty-six or more thumbnail photographs per page, depicting sets, performers, and concepts from live variety stage shows performed before feature films. These shows, known as "Ideas," were produced by the Los Angeles-based theatrical production team of Fanchon and Marco. The photographs document stages, often with ornate set designs, rehearsals, dance and musical numbers, costumes, and group and single portraits of dancers, musicians, and actors for shows performed from the late 1920s to the 1930s. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 16 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances. The thumbnails appear primarily to duplicate images found in the other volumes, in reverse order, with the last thumbnails on page 29 corresponding to the Circus images on page 97 of photCL 487 vol 2, and earlier pages corresponding to later volumes. The volume duplicates the images found in pages 1-29 of photCL 487 vol 15. Page titles devised by cataloger. The page numbers reflect their original order in the binder. Album dates approximated by cataloger based on years of photographs in other volumes.
Actors Choreography Dance--Production and direction Dancers Fanchon & Marco Theaters--California--Los Angeles Theater--Production and direction Theatrical productions Vaudeville Photographs. (aat)
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