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Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Glenn Close Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acc. 1993.35 gift of approximately 200 items from Glenn Close on 4/30/1993; Acc. 1994.33 gift of approximately200 items from Glenn Close on 4/21/1994; Acc. 1993.67 gift of 1 item from Will Molineux on 11/15/1993; Acc. 1994.41 gift of 16 items from Nancy Marshall, Dean of Libraries on 5/26/1994; Acc. 1994.42 gift of 1 item from Spencer Timm on 5/27/1994; Acc. 1995.12 gift of 5 items from Nancy H. Marshall on 3/20/1995; and Acc. 1997.68 transfer of 2 items from University Archives on 12/11/1997. Acc. 2007.112 gift of Maxine Spalding (through courtesy of Jenny Bledsoe). Acc. 2009.526 a compilation of material given by others. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.
Processed by Daisy Hougan in 1994. Mss. 93 C62 was reboxed, but kept in the same order, using the original box and folder numbers, (and sometimes combining two b oxes) by Anne Johnson, Special Collections Staff, in November 2009. Mss. Acc. 2010.601 was accessioned by Benjamin Bromley, Public Services Archives Specialist, in October 2010. Acc. 2013.195 was accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist. Acc. 2010.601 was arranged and described by Cecile Glendening, Special Collections Staff, July through September 2013.
Glenn Close (born 1947) is a six-time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. Close is an Emmy Award- winning TV movie actress, a three-time Tony Award-winning stage actress and has been nominated for seven Emmys and seven Golden Globes. Ms. Close attended the College of William and Mary, where she was involved in campus theatrical productions and graduated a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
Papers of Glenn Close, documenting her career as an actress on Broadway, television, and in film. Included are recorded interviews, correspondence, clippings, invitations, programs, playbills, photographs, videos, scripts, as well as materials related to her high school and college years.
Portions of this collection have not yet been fully arranged and described. Researchers may wish to contact a staff member in advance.
All audiovisual materials, including videocassettes, CDs, and phonograph records haven been moved to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection, Mss 1.04.
Artifacts were transferred to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection (Mss. 1.03) including the Pacific Northwestern Hospital Parody ID Card (Mss 2010.601.67).
Audio and moving image formats may require reformatting before they can be accessed. Please consult an SCRC staff member for assistance.
This series holds the original group of material donated to Swem Library by Glenn Close numbered Mss. 93 C62. Films and other projects covered include: include Barnum, The Natural, The Big Chill, Maxie, The World According to Garp, Jagged Edge, Fatal Attraction, Reversal of Fortune, Hamlet, Sarah: Plain and Tall, Meeting Venus, Dangerous Liasons, Air Force One, Death and the Maiden, the 1992 Tony Awards, Sarah: Plain and Tall, and Skylark. Included are press clippings from newspapers and magazines, videotapes, scripts, and some correspondence.
Subjects include Len Cariou in Sweeny Todd, Glenn Close's role in Barnum, and her Tony nomination for Barnum. Includes an article from the Flat Hat.
Subjects include Lou Caiou's reading on radio of The Tin Drum, the Stratford Production of HMS Pinafore, and the opening of the Stratford Festival's 29th season.
Subjects include Len Cariou's performance as Petruchio in the Stratford Festival; Cabot Wade's production of Artie King; John Irving and The World According to Garp.
Subjects include Close's performances in Barnum, The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, and The World According to Garp.
Subjects include The World According to Garp with Glenn Close as Jenny Garp.
Subjects include The World According to Garp with Glenn Close as Jenny Garp.
Subjects include Close's role as Jenny Garp in The World According to Garp and her casting in The Big Chill. Also included are letters from PMK, Close's publicity company.
Subjects include Something About Amelia, a made-for-tv movie on incest with Close as the mother; the Obie Awards; and The Big Chill. Also included are letters from PMK, her publicity company, dating from March 25, 1983.
Subjects include Close in Something About Amelia; Close's role in The Natural; and Close in the title role of Maxie.
Subjects include Close's dress for the Oscars; Close's performance in the title role of Joan of Arc at the Stake; and Close's participation in Childhood.
Subjects include Close in th title role of Joan of Arc at the Stake and her starring role in the play Childhood.
Subjects include Claus von Bulow; Jagged Edge, in which she starred as Teddy Barnes; and Maxi, in which Close played the title role.
Subjects include Close's role in the film Maxie.
Subjects include Close's starring role in the film Jagged Edge.
Subjects include Close's roles in Maxie, Jagged Edge, and Benefactors.
Subjects include Benefactor, and Close's casting opposite Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction.
Including some on Fatal Attraction, in which Close co-starred with Michael Doughlas.
Subjects include Close's role in Fatal Attraction opposite Michael Douglas.
Subjects include Fatal Attraction and Stones for Ibarra a Hallmark Hall of Fame drama.
Subjects include Close's role in Stones for Ibarra and the 1988 Oscars.
Subjects include 1988 Oscars and Close's role as the Marquise Isabelle de Mertueuil in Dangerous Liaisons.
Subjects include Close's role as the Marquise Isabelle de Mertueuil in Dangerous Liaisons and the 1989 Oscars.
Subjects include Dangerous Liaisons and the Oscars.
Subjects include Dangerous Liaisons; Pro-choice rally; and the Oscars.
Subjects include Pro-choice rally in Washington, D.C.; Close's Beene Dress that she wore to the Academy Awards; Close's Commencement speech at William and Mary; and her role as Sunny Von Bulow.
Subjects include Close's role as Sunny von Vulow in Reversal of Fortune and her role in Immediate Family.
Subjects include Immediate Family.
Subjects include Immediate Family; New York Women in Film Luncheon; and Reversal of Fortune.
Subjects include Close's receipt of the 1990 Hasting Pudding Award.
Subjects include Hamlet with Mel Gibson.
Subjects include Hamlet and Sarah: Plain and Tall.
Subjects include Academy Awards and Brooklyn Laundry.
Subjects include Brooklyn Laundry; WIF Crystal Awards; and Hook.
Subjects include Soul Survivors and Meeting Venus.
Press releases from the San Sebastian Film Festival. Film in festival was Meeting Venus.
Press releases from the San Sebastian Film Festival and newspaper articles. Subjects include Meeting Venus.
Subjects include Death and the Maiden and Meeting Venus.
Mostly on Close's performance in Death and the Maiden with Gene Hackman and Richard Drefuss.
Mostly on Close's performance in Death and the Maiden with Gene Hackman and Richard Drefuss.
Subjects include the Tony Awards.
Subjects include Sondheim: Celebration at Carnegie Hall; Sarah: Plain and Tall; and Death and the Maiden.
Subjects include Skylark and Lincoln Documentary.
Subjects include Skylark and Sunset Boulevard.
Subjects include Barnum and Len Cariou.
Subjects include Close's role as Jenny Fields in The World According to Garp.
Subjects include Jagged Edge, Sarah: Plain and Tall, and Hamlet.
Scope and Contents Reviews of The World According to Garp and Dangerous Liaisons. Also, a transcript from an appearance on the "Larry King Show" and a script "Faces of Change" program on July 14, 1992.
Subjects include Len Cariou in Sweeny Todd and Glenn Close in The World According to Garp.
Subjects include The Natural and The Real Thing.
Subjects include The Big Chill and The Natural.
Subjects include Maxie and Childhood.
Subjects include Maxie and Jagged Edge.
Subjects include Benefactors and Books on Tape.
Subjects include Fatal Attraction and Stones for Ibarra.
Subjects include Stones for Ibarra, the Oscars, and Dangerous Liaisons.
Subjects include Jagged Edge and Dangerous Liaisons.
Subjects include abortion rights march and Dangerous Liaisons.
Subjects include Immediate Family and Dangerous Liaisons.
Subjects include Hamlet and the Academy Awards.
Subjects include Stones for Ibarra.
Subjects include Hook, the Academy Awards, and Garp.
Subjects include Len Cariou, Oscars and Maxie.
Enclosed: Skylark reviews and articles from PMK, Close's Public Relations Company.
Skylark reviews sent from Close to co-star Christopher Walken.
TV book covers from the Tony Awards sent to Close by PMK, her Public Relations Company.
Pamphlets, including some from the Emmy and Academy Awards.
Close's script (three ring binder) as Hostess of Saturday Night Live, December 12, 1992.
Academy Award publicity ads and other publicity for The World According to Garp, The Big Chill, Stones for Ibarra, Immediate Family, Jagged Edge, Broken Hearts, Broken Homes, Sarah: Plain and Tall, and Reversal of Fortune.
Publicity, especially for the Academy Awards, for Dangerous Liaisons.
Souvenirs from Jeremy Irons' Danny, The Champion of the World, You''re the top! benefit with Len Cariou, The Kennedy Center Honors of April, 1987, and the 42nd Golden Globe Awards; also, letters from PMK.
Photograph from Broken Hearts, Broken Homes; souvenirs from William and Mary's Tercentenary Concert Series, the Dartmouth Film Society's Tribute to Glenn Close, NY Women in film and The World According to Garp's benefit premier. Also, a play bill from the 46th Annual Antoinette Perry Awards and an article about Close.
English translations of foreign newspaper articles.
Scope and Contents Ligacoes Perigosas articles about Dangerous Liaisons.
Ligacoes Perigosas articles about Dangerous Liaisons.
Ligacoes Perigosas articles about Dangerous Liaisons.
Magazine articles on Glenn Close. Subjects include The World According to Garp and The Natural.
Magazine articles on Glenn Close. Subjects include Fatal Attraction.
Magazine articles on Glenn Close. Subjects include Dangerous Liaisons.
Subjects include her home in Montana.
Subjects include a royal polo match.
Profiles of Glenn Close.
Subjects include Harvard's Harsty Pudding Awards.
Subjects include Meeting Venus.
Subjects include Meeting Venus.
Subjects include Meeting Venus.
Subjects include Death and the Maiden.
Subjects include the 1992 Tony Awards. 3 items.
Glenn Close to Gillian T. Cell, Provost of William and Mary, regarding College's dance program and reply of October 21, 1994. Originals in Provost's papers.
Two broken videotapes.
Scope and Contents Record (78 rpm) of "Sing-out 66," a group Glenn Close sang with sponsored by the Moral Majority. Featured on the record are two songs by Ms. Close: "The Happy Song" and "Run and Catch the Wind." This album sold at a performance in Phi Beta Kappa Hall, 1966. The traveling show was called "Up with People." Ms. Close was a featured soloist with a group before entering the College of William and Mary.
This series contains publicity material about The Paper and Sunset Boulevard as well as miscellaneous publicity on Glenn Close.
Material, chiefly 1993, relating to Glenn Close's starring role in Sunset Boulevard, including a mug, program, and publicity for the Los Angeles performance. The mug is also listed in the Artifact Collection.
Script of The House of Spirits autographed by Glenn Close and other members of the cast and writers including: Isabel Allende, Bille August, Antonio Banderas, Miriam Colon, Fran Fullenwider, Vincent Gallo, Jeremy Irons, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Teri Polo, Vanessa Redgrave, Winona Ryder, and Meryl Streep.
Two photographs of Glenn Close and William and Mary President Timothy J. Sullivan at a performance of Sunset Boulevard, New York City, December 11,1994. Three photographs of Glenn Close as Norma Desmond, Alice Ripley as Betty Schaefer, and Alan Campbell as Joe Gillis.
Scope and Contents Two records (33-1/3 rpm) of original cast recording of "The Real Thing" by Tom Sheppard, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close. Includes note, 31 May 1985, from Glenn Close to Howard Scammon.
Scope and Contents Program of Broadway play, "Sunset Boulevard" starring Glenn Close.
This accession contains programs as well as newspaper articles and magazines with articles mostly about Glenn Close.
Contains papers, 1965-2002, of Glenn Close including: notebooks from classes she took at the College of William and Mary; correspondence with friends, professional acquaintances, and fans; publicity materials relating to various film projects; newspaper and magazine clippings related to her movies and plays; and audiovisual materials.
Personal and professional correspondence received by Glenn Close. Includes telegrams, congratulatory notes, letters and cards from friends, actors, directors, and writers, also letters and cards from family members.
Personal Correspondence including letters from William & Mary President Thomas A. Graves and Mrs. Graves.
Personal Correspondence including letter from Gloria Steinham on Ms. letterhead, letter from Swoosie Kurtz, telegram from Tom Cruise and Mimi Rogers.
Includes letters from Hume Cronyn, Kirk Douglas, John Lithgow, and Walter Farley.
Personal correspondence including letters and cards from Whoopi Goldberg, Hume Cronyn (with photos), Barbara Walters, Jeremy Irons, Wendy Wasserstein, Gene Shalit, Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Thomas A. Graves.
Personal correspondence including letters and cards from Whoopi Goldberg, Hume Cronyn (with photos), Barbara Walters, Jeremy Irons, Wendy Wasserstein, Gene Shalit, Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Thomas A. Graves.
Personal correspondence including letters and cards from Whoopi Goldberg, Hume Cronyn (with photos), Barbara Walters, Jeremy Irons, Wendy Wasserstein, Gene Shalit, Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Thomas A. Graves.
Personal correspondence including letters and cards from Whoopi Goldberg, Hume Cronyn (with photos), Barbara Walters, Jeremy Irons, Wendy Wasserstein, Gene Shalit, Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Thomas A. Graves.
Personal correspondence including letters and cards from Whoopi Goldberg, Hume Cronyn (with photos), Barbara Walters, Jeremy Irons, Wendy Wasserstein, Gene Shalit, Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Thomas A. Graves.
Includes letters from Kitty Carlisle Hart, Lawrence Kasdan, Tracey Ullman, and Better MIdler.
Includes letters from Joanne Woodward and Jane Smiley.
Includes a 1992 letter from Elaine May.
Letters to Glenn Close from Roy Brocksmith, American actor, director and playwright.
Letters to Annie Stark, daughter of Glenn Close and John Stark.
Items related to film, television and theater projects of Glenn Close. Includes press clippings, publicity materials, production materials and programs.
Cast and Crew lists, shooting schedule.
Materials related to poetry readings at premiere of the movie Il Postino.
2 cast photos, publicity materials.
Cast and crew lists, shooting schedules.
Partial script, publicity materials.
Newspapers
Japanese publicity
Teacher guide
Press Kits
Letters from 3rd grade class.
Letters from 3rd grade class.
Letters from 4th and 6th grade classes.
Dallas Morning News TV Magazine
Total TV magazine.
New York Times Television Guide.
Telegivion Guide.
One white binder with information on all the nominees and winners of the Academy Award from 1927 through 1986. The binder includes tabs for each category receiving an Oscar.
Broadway theater program, associated envelope containing sketches of cast members and other materials, possible gift to cast.
Cards and notes from cast members and other actors including Shirley MacLaine, Kim Basinger, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, and Mike Nichols.
Los Angeles performance of Brooklyn Laundry, program and congratulatory notes and cards, including from Woody Harrelson, James L. Brooks, Marsha Mason, Marlo Thomas, Bruce Willis & Demi Moore, Jeffrey Katzenberg. Also includes dialect notes and directions to theater.
Letters from family, friends, fans and professional acquaintances. Fax from father W.T. Close, letters from George Roy Hill, Irving Lazar, Jane Smiley, Gregory Hines. Notepad with list of tickets left for friends and colleagues. Names include Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Alan Alda, Geoffrey Beene, Jimmy Smits, Laura Dern, Woody Harrelson, and Judy Collins.
Background research, story treatments, scripts and financial information for proposed movie based on the 1976 Zaire Ebola epidemic.
Scope and Contents Page 16, poem titled "Williamsburg" is dedicated to "G.C."
This series contains clippings from the Richmond Times Dispatch, July 22, 2007, about Glenn Close's role in the television series Damages; clipping from Parade Magazine, July 14, 2013, about Glenn Close's costumes being auctioned off for charity; and the August 6-12, 2007 issue of TV Guide featuring Glenn Close on the cover regarding her new television series Damages.
Periodicals (newspapers, magazines) that cover Glenn Close's career.
A two page letter from Glenn Close to Katherine Rowe. In the letter, Close expresses how humbled she feels to receive an Honorary Fellowship from William and Mary, and accepts the request to give a speech during Commencement.
The collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.
Glenn Close Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.