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Title
Fanchon & Marco, Volume 5
Creator
Fox, Curt
Contributor
Fanchon & Marco
Date Created and/or Issued
1930
1931
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
58 album pages, each with four 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 approximately 1930 to 1931. Pages 1-39 contain four images per page; Pages 40-58 contain one image per page. Many of the photographs include the imprint of photographer Curt Fox of Hollywood, California. The photographs were originally housed in a custom binder and comprise volume 5 of a 16-volume set that served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco performances.
Page titles based on handwritten identifications on photograph versos and a typescript inventory at the beginning of the album; album dates based on the dates of references to the Ideas in the Los Angeles Times, as well as in issues of the Fanchon & Marco supplemental press book "The Idea." The page numbers reflect their original order in the binder.
Type
image
Identifier
photCL 487 vol 05
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/15256
Subject
Actors
Choreography
Dance--Production and direction
Dancers
Fanchon & Marco
Theaters--California--Los Angeles
Theater--Production and direction
Theatrical productions
Vaudeville
Photographs. (aat)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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