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(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Lorraine Hansberry. The actress Juanita Moore's copy of the script for Raisin in the Sun. [5], 55, 49, 19 mimeograph leaves, printed on recto only. 4to, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, in original post binder with title stamped in front, moderate wear; moderate to heavy wear to contents; manuscript notes throughout in various hands, with actress Juanita Moore's signature on title page. New York: produced by the Hart Stenographic Bureau, 1959
A typescript of the groundbreaking play, the first by a Black woman on Broadway, and the first with a Black director. This copy apparently belonged to the Academy Award-nominated American actress Juanita Moore (1914-2014), who played the role of Mama Lena Younger in the Adelphi Theatre staging of the play in London. It opened in August 1959, a few months after the Broadway debut. Her signature appears above the title, along with more than a dozen other memoranda, some apparently relating to her efforts to find lodging in London. Elwood Smith, who was an understudy in the Broadway production and later played the lead as Walter Younger in the 1960 Boston production, has added his New Orleans address as well. The script is loaded with manuscript notes, some of them apparently in Moore's hand, and many of them relating to the character of Mama--both elaborations on the stage instructions, and character motivations.
WITH--3 photographs from the London production: one of a scene featuring cast members Olga James, Kim Hamilton, and Juanita Moore, shot by by Reginald Wilson of Houston Rogers Studios, 6 x 4 3/4 inches; one of the cast's curtain call, 8 x 10 inches, by George J. Keen; and another of cast members Juanita Moore, Earle Hyman, Kim Hamilton, and Olga James embracing, also 8 x 10 inches, by George J. Keen. All are housed in a worn later envelope bearing Moore's address.
