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Jeanette Heller fonds

  • F0542
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  • 1907-2011, 1930-1965 predominant

Fonds documents Jeanette Heller's activities as a dancer and career in entertainment with records primarily pertaining to her life as a Roxyette (Rockette), USO troupe dancer during World War II and the Korean War, and employee of many dance companies including the American Repertory Theatre Group. Records consist of photographs, newspaper clippings, programmes, annotated maps, correspondence, contracts, and a collection of Jewish recipes.

Heller, Jeanette

Photo album 3 : dancers, celebrities, and Jeanette

File includes photographs of USO tours and the Roxyettes, and includes signed photographs of Lloyd Bridges, Helene Faye, and Kay Medford, amongst others. File includes resume, newspaper clippings, CNE performer tickets, souvenir program from Olsen & Johnson int he Fireball Fun-For-All (28 June 1948), Nirska program,

Maps

File contains a map of Korea (1945), British Railways (1961), Urugay and Brazil (ca. 1961?), the United States (ca. 1937?), Railway map of Japan (1946), Latest Map of the United States (ca. 1930S?), and the Military Map of the United States by the Progression Union Pacific Railroad (1942).

Education : certificates and report cards

File contains certificate for typewriting and penmanship, an honorary citizen certificate from the Governing Board of Boys Town, Toronto public school certificate of honor (regularity, punctuality of attendance, and good attendance), Collegiate Institutes High Schools and Continuation Schools of Ontario certificate, the Board of Education for the City of Toronto honour standing certificate, a student report from the George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology, and handwritten essay on fashion.

Photo album 3 : dancers, celebrities, and Jeanette

File includes photographs of USO tours and the Roxyettes, and includes signed photographs of Len Manning, Diane Denise, Lucien La Rivere, Buddy Elsen, Pierce Lyden, Eleanor Powell, amongst others. File also includes an artist's contract for Jeanette with the Blanquita Theatre in Cuba (1949) and correspondence pertaining to John F. Kennedy and the Theatre Guild Americna Repertory Company tour in 1961.

Programs signed by colleagues

File pertains to Cats on Broadway and at the Jackie Gleason Theatre in Miami Beach, the King and I at New York City Center, Olsen and Johnson in Funzapoppin (ca. 1949), Finnocchio's (ca. 1936-1943?) - a nightclub with female impersonators in costumes, the Ice Capades (ca.1977-1984?) with Dorothy Hamill, the Olympic gold medallist at the 1976 Innsbrunck Games.

Photo album 2

File includes photographs of the Roxyettes and Jeanette Heller taken at the Beverley Hills Country Club, Camden, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, and New York City.

Photo album 3 : dancers, celebrities, and Jeanette

File includes photographs of USO tours and the Roxyettes, and includes signed photographs of Redd Donohue, Bonnie Plains, Barbara Kessler, Ruth Ann Koeskia, Dan Lincoln, Joan Crawford, and Albie Gaye, amongst others. File also includes resume, clippings from Service Stripe AMC newsletter with an article on Heller's USO troup 'Pardon Me' premier (7 July 1945), the Ladies' Home Journal: Women of the Year (1974) programme, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.

Scrapbook of my travels

Item consists of a scrapbook which primarily includes newspaper clippings pertaining to the Hollywood Hotel Revue.

Photo album 3 : dancers, celebrities, and Jeanette

File includes photographs of USO tours and the Roxyettes, and includes signed photographs of the Berry Brothers, Dimitri Vladimiroff and Edna Liggitt, Louis Armstrong, Julie Andrews, Gracie Fields, Alicia Markova, John Boles, Lupe Serrano, Cass Daley, and (Edith) Gail Grant, amongst others. File also includes certificate in clerk typist program in George Brown College (1976).

Seal of California and Olsen & Johnson certificate

File contains the seal of California presented to Heller by the Governor of California and a citation from Oslen & Johnson certification into the Hellzapoppin Chapter of the International Association of Merry Screwballs.

Photo album 3 : dancers, celebrities, and Jeanette

File includes photographs of USO tours and the Roxyettes, and includes signed photographs of Dorothy Crooker, Albie Gaye, and Joel Grey, amongst others. File also includes TGTA Film Festival Newsmag (September/October 2006) which contains an articles on Heller.

Photographs

File contains photographs of Heller in uniform as a USO dancer in Detroit, Korea, and Japan; performing in Havana and as a Rockette performing across the United States; and visiting family and friends.

Photo album 2 : Lillian Langer : Coca Cola poster

File pertains to an advertising poster with Lillian (Boew) Langer and includes a newspaper clipping and a photocopy of “les Bluebell's Red Stars” including Cherry Marsh, Dee Phillipps, Denise Westaway, Hedy Wickersheim, Iris Trew, Jose Newall, Kathereene Dunne, Lillian Bowe, Lyllian Patterson, Lucy Douglas, Renee Spiller, and Olwen Sudgen.

Complimentary souvenir booklet : U.S. armed forces recreation centre

File contains photographs with captions of the US army's Berchtesgadener Hof Hotel in Bavaria, Hitler's residence (Berghof) on the Obersalzberg mountain, Salzburg with the fortress in the background, a view from the alphine strasse, the American Lake Hotel at Chiemssee, and a view of Garmisch from a cable car.

Photo album 2

File includes photographs of USO Unit 944 in Tokyo and Hospital Unit , Heller in Toronto, Dorothy Harber, and Niagara Falls.

Photographs

File contains photographs of Heller performing at the CNE and with the Johnny Lonegan Dancers in Philadelphia, and at Madison Square Garden and Canada's Wonderland.

Wartime newspapers

File consists of newspaper issues and clippings of the Louise Burns dancers at Maple Leaf Gardens (The Star, 11 October 1941, p.11 and the Toronto Daily Star, 29 August 1941, p.3), an issue of the Kol Korea (series IV, number XI, 23 May 1947), the 'Pardon Me' revue at the Trocodero (Desert Airman, 22 Nov. 1945), an issue of the AGVA news (Aug. 1950), an issue of the Korea Graph XXIV corps (18 May 1947), an issue of the Far East Stars Stripes weekly review (8 June 1947), and the Pacific Stars and Stripes (vol. 3, number 118, 28 April 1947).

Jewish community

File contains Globe and Mail article “Cruelty to Jews seen in Toronto (11 January 1944) which references Heller as Miss JH, a Christmas carton titled “seasoned greetings from Yenta Claus”, a booklet on the history of Israel's seafarers, travel programs from the Zim Israel Navigation company produced in 1966.

Programs : ballet

File pertains to the American Ballet Theatre (1947-1948 signed by Gail Grant and 1984), the Stuttgart Ballet (1971), the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet (1961), and the Royal Ballet (1975).

Travel [USO camp show #944 : mirth makers revue]

File pertains to the USO unit consisting of Jeanette Heller, Honey Hilton, Bonnie McKay, Baby McKay, and Sharon Dean, and contains a photograph of Heller in uniform for the USO Unit 944 (South Pacific) in 1947; a menu of the third military railway service occupation forces in Japan, a booklet introducing to Johnston Island published on 20 July 1947; a weekly entertainment schedule of the Kyoto “Stateside” Theatre including USO camp show; a certificate of travel for the camp show; instructions to passengers embarking to overseas destinations published by the Air Transport Command Pacific Division on 1 November 1946; a program for the performance; a passenger information pamphlet published by the Naval Air Transport Service Air Transport Squadron Eight which includes information on Johnston Island, Kwajalein, midway, Palmyra, Canton, and American Samoa; and a running order of the camp shows for the unit.

Rockettes

File contains a newspaper clipping and a Radio City Music Hall program.

News clippings and correspondence

File includes material pertaining to Red Skeleton, Jewry, and health, and also includes addresses of individuals, cartoons, and collected ephemera.

Photo album 2

File includes newspaper clipping of Mrs. Lena Heller's (mother) obituary and train and bus tickets. File includes photographs of Jeanette Heller, Tamara Venmar (Costumer at the American Ballet Theatre), Central Park, New Jersey, and Florida, and Lebanon.

Jewish community

File contains newspaper clippings including an article on the Royal Canadian Henley with a picture featuring Aubrey Heller and an article written by Mark Heller in the Globe and Mail, an issue of the Ontario Urban Development Institute (vol. 1, issue 12), publications by the Israel Government Tourist Corporation, a post card of the SS Shalom of the Zim Lines fleet, an issue of Montreal's the Senior Times (volume ix, number 1, 5 October 1994) featuring Red Skelton on the cover,

Ephemera

File includes an issue of “The Canadian : Missing History : Tracking down the homes of our PMs” by the Toronto Star (20 May 1978) and newspaper clippings pertaining to figs and an evaluation of thirty-two presidents.

Ballet

File contains a newspaper clipping pertaining to Celia Franca's death and Baryshnikov bringing Swan Lake to TOPA, an American Ballet Theatre program with a sheet insertion pertaining to tour expenses, notes for a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream by the New York City Ballet spring season in 1994.

Correspondence : Muriel Palmer

File consists of correspondence pertaining to the death of Heller's mother, the 'gay nineties' chorus photograph in the Globe and Mail's newsletter, and contains the April 1958 issue of “The Inside Story: about the people who produce”, the Globe and Mail newsletter.

Photo album 2

File includes a postcard of a ship, WNEW-TV production staff Jerry Lewis Telethon name badge, invitation to the Theatre Guild of American Repertory Company to a reception from the Swedish-American Society of Stockholm, and photographs of Madrid, Hamburg, Berlin, Kansas City, Shirley Jones “On a Clear Day,” Miami Beach, and the Forino family.

Programs : theatre and musicals

File pertains to City Lites 88 at the Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas, a newspaper article on Les Miserables in the Miami Herald (12 January 1989), Carmen by the Canadian Opera Company (1993), As the Girls Go at the Winter Garden with Irene Rich, the Royal Poinciana Playhouse (1961), Those were the Days (ca. 1990s?), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Shirley Jones at Atlanta Municipal Theatre (1967), and Scene Changes: Ontario's leading theatre magazine (June 1979).

Theatre Guild American Repertory Company

File primarily pertains to the Theatre Guild American Repertory Company tour in 1961 of which Jeanette Heller was the wardrobe supervisor and contains breakfast menu from the Armed Forces Recreation Centre in Berchtesgaden Garmish Chiemsee, a list of Hotel for AMREPCO, memorandums, information for visitors to Berlin from the United States Mission, a program in Spanish for a performance in Madrid, a program in Dutch for a performance in the Netherlands, handwritten notes, a program in Italian for a performance in Florence, a list of participants for an Orient Tour in November 1985, dressing room assignments with annotations, the Official Bulletin magazine (first and third quarter 1998, no. 579 and no. 581) pertaining to the 63rd triennial convention of IATSEIA in Toronto in 1998, a booklet titled “welcome to Vienna” by the US Information Service in Vienna, correspondence from the American Consulate General in Munich and Stockholm, a company schedule for Stockholm, entertainment suggestions for the American Repertory Company from USIS Munich, reviews of performances in Rotterdam, a brief historical sketch of the Burgtheater, correspondence from the United States Mission Berlin and American Consulate General in Hamburg, a schedule for Hamburg, a telegram from the Secretary of State Dean Rusk to the American Repertory Company in Madrid, a schedule for Munich, a list of tours available in and around Madrid, a schedule for Madrid and the Netherlands, a handwritten list of hotels on tour, a brochure about Berchtesgaden Recreation Area of the US Army activities for the period of 6-19 May 1961, an itinerary with notes for the tour across Europe., and an invitation from the Actors Equity Association to celbrate the first world-wide tour of an American acting company under the aegis of the United States government.

US Repertory Group

File contains a copy of Life International (24 April 1961) and Theatre: Drame Musique Danse (June 1961, no. 20).

Photo album 2

File includes photographs of Mickey, Eunice, and Aubrey Heller; Lawrence, Better Merle Smith, Ira Smith, Sherry and Tim, and Mandy and David. File also includes postcard from Black Creek Pioneer Village.

Starlight theatre

Item consists of a program for “Starlight Theatre: In Swope Park Kansas City: On a clear Day You Can See Forever” with a handwritten note stating “special dresser to Shirley Jones on Tour 1967”.

Workmen's compensation board : claim

Item consists of a hospital bill stapled to a filled out claim for an injury (carbon tetrochloride poisoning) while cleaning costumes for “Everything in the Garden” (ABW Productions) as a theatrical dresser for the star.

Photo album 2

File includes an invitation from the Ambassador of the United States to members of the Theatre Guild American Repertory Company and photographs of Miami Beach, New York, Gale Sondergaard from the “Best of Everything” soap opera, Eugene Heller, Will Rogers, Marie Tokarski, Shirley and Basso Lasswell, Rose Newgarden, Adam Flomen's Bar Mitzvah, Myra Rein (cousin), and Toronto.

Sewing and knitting

File contains sewing pattern and an article titled “How to knit: a family circle beginner's primer with easy how-to illustrations and helpful hints for knitters of all ages.”

Les Folies

File contains photocopied newspaper articles, a photocopy of a pin up photo of Heller, and a print of “The spirit of maimnoides” signed by Harry Shapiro.

Pension credit

Item consists of table calculating years of service, salaries, and pension credit from 1969 to 1979.

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