TitleInterview with Louise Kerz Hirschfeld
Additional title: Louise Hirschfeld interview
NamesParker/Hodges Productions (Production company)New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division., Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. (Producer)Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- (Interviewee)Haskins, Susan (Interviewer)
CollectionTheatre on Film and Tape Archive Public Program Videos
Dates / OriginDate Issued: 2021Place: New York
Library locationsTheatre on Film and Tape ArchiveShelf locator: NCOW 435
TopicsHirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936-Hirschfeld, Louise Kerz, 1936- -- Friends and associatesHirschfeld, AlHirschfeld, Al -- MarriageHirschfeld, Al -- Friends and associatesKerz, Leo -- MarriageCullman, Lewis B., 1919-2019 -- MarriageCaricature -- United StatesCartoonists -- United StatesMusical theater -- New York (State) -- New YorkTheater -- New York (State) -- New YorkPerforming arts -- United States
GenresInterviewsInterviews
NotesStatement of responsibility: [Video production company] Parker/Hodges Productions, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.Content: Title from opening credits.Performers: Interviewed by Susan Haskins.Venue: Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, October 7, 2021.
Physical DescriptionBorn digitalExtent: 1 videodisc (DVD) (67 min.) :sound, color ;4 3/4 in.
DescriptionLouise Kerz Hirschfeld Cullman, who has been affiliated with the performing arts as a researcher and curator, and in other capacities as well, discusses her life with interviewer Susan Haskins. The interview begins with a discussion of her late husband, the artist Al Hirschfeld, and an examination of his drawing desk, chair, and tools. Subsequent topics include Cullman's early efforts to become an actress; her marriage to theater producer and designer Leo Kerz, and their life together; and her work as a cultural historian, through acting as a research consultant for television documentaries and museum exhibits devoted to prominent personalities in the arts. She tells how she first knew Al Hirschfeld and his wife Dolly Haas as hosts of dinner parties she would attend with her husband Kerz, and discusses her eventual marriage to Hirschfeld after both had been widowed. After his death in 2003, she would marry philantropist Lewis B. Cullman, who died at age 100 in 2019. She concludes by discussing various ways she has maintained Al Hirschfeld's artistic legacy.
Type of ResourceMoving image
LanguagesEnglish
IdentifiersRLIN/OCLC: 1296609158NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22699227NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22807036Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cde87980-717f-013a-d371-0242ac110004
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