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WESTPORT, Conn., Aug. 20 —John Cecil Haggott, producer and director for theater, motion pictures and television, died this morning at his home. He was 50 years old and lived at 8 Bermuda Road...
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Formed by stage manager and associate producer John Haggott (Harvard Class of 1935), the collection consists of: 1. Artist agreementswith the Theatre Guild, including successive versions of Robeson’s contract 2. Box office statements 3. John Haggott’s promptbook for the 1944–45 tour 4. Correspondencerelating to proposed segregated performances in T...
The production premiered in 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Uta Hagen as Desdemona and her husband, Puerto Rican actor José Ferrer, as Iago. Director Margaret Webster played Emilia but was replaced by Edith King during the Broadway run after a dispute with Robeson over star billing status for Hagen and Ferrer. The Broadway production was pro...
Producer: The United States Steel Hour. John Haggott was born in 1914 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The United States Steel Hour (1953), Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers (1953) and The Walking Hills (1949). He died on 20 August 1964 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.
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The exhibit includes a letter to John Haggott, the producer of the 1943 “Othello” and a 1935 Harvard grad, from the chairman of Baylor University’s English Department, Andrew Joseph Armstrong. The academic wrote: “It would not work at all for the whites and negroes to sit together.
John Haggott Papers on the Margaret Webster-Paul Robeson Production of Shakespeare's Othello, 1942-1958 (MS Thr 2023). Houghton Library, Harvard University. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou03299/catalog Accessed May 24, 2024.
Aug 16, 2016 · With space adventure shows at their peak of popularity in 1953, CBS hired Tom Corbett’s original director, John Haggott, and commissioned him to create a clone. He did, and the result was Rod Brown (Cliff Robertson) of the Rocket Rangers.
Haggott, John. John Haggott papers on the Margaret Webster-Paul Robeson production of Shakespeare's Othello, 1942-1958 (MS Thr 2023): Guide. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library Harvard Yard Harvard University Cambridge, MA, 02138 Houghton_Library@harvard.edu http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ois:HOU (617) 495-2440
