Actresses
Here are entered works on female actors collectively. Works on male actors collectively are entered under Male actors. General works on both male and female actors collectively, works on both male and female stage actors collectively and works on individual male and female stage actors are entered under Actors. Works on actors, collectively or individually, specializing in particular media are entered under the appropriate specific heading, e.g. Television actors and actresses, with an additional heading Male actors or Actresses, assigned as appropriate to works of collective biography.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Actresses -- 19th century
- Actresses -- Biography
- Actresses -- Drama
- Actresses -- England
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Great Britain
- Actresses -- Ireland
- Actresses -- United States
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Television actors and actresses
- Women comedians
- Lloyd, Harold, 1893-1971
- Female actors
- Women actors
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Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
- The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)
- The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
- The Half Sisters: A Tale (cheap edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
- Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)
- Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
- An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
- Silver Screen (partial serial archives)
- Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
- Talking Screen (full serial archives)
- Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)
- Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Actors- The Paradox of Acting: Translated With Annotations From Diderot's "Paradoxe sur le Comédien" (London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Walter Herries Pollock, contrib. by Henry Irving (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
- Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)
- A Star Danced (author died in 1952; c1945), by Gertrude Lawrence (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The Art of the Theatre (London: G. Bles, ca. 1924), by Sarah Bernhardt, trans. by H. J. Stenning, contrib. by James Agate (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Autobiography of Clara Fisher Maeder (New York; The Dunlap society, 1897), by Clara Fisher, ed. by Douglas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Life of Charlotte Cushman (New York et al.: Brentano's, c1894), by W. T. Price (multiple formats at Google)
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (London: W. Heinemann, 1906), by Bram Stoker
- Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (revised and cheaper edition; London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Bram Stoker
- A Society Clown: Reminiscences, by George Grossmith (Gutenberg text)
- Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1902), by Clara Morris (Gutenberg text)
- Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer und Heinrich Laube im Briefwechsel: Auf Grund der Originalhandschriften Dargestellt (in German; Berlin: Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte, 1917), by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer and Heinrich Laube, ed. by Alexander von Weilen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- An Apology for The Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent Garden Theatre, Written by Herself; To Which is Annexed Her Original Letter to John Calcraft (5 volumes in 2; London: Printed for the author, 1785), by George Anne Bellamy
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952), by Eugene O'Neill (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- A Maid of Many Moods (Toronto: Copp Clark Co., 1902), by Virna Sheard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Actor-Manager (Works of Leonard Merrick edition; London et al: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Leonard Merrick, contrib. by William Dean Howells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Comedienne (c1920), by Władyslaw Stanisław Reymont, trans. by Edmund Obecny (Gutenberg text)
- Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (2 volumes; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1917), by David Graham Phillips
- Der Guckkasten: Deutsche Schauspielbilder (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1922), by Herbert Eulenberg
- Der Guckkasten: Deutsche Schauspielbilder (in German; Stuttgart: J. Engelhorn, 1921), by Herbert Eulenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Records of Later Life (3 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1882), by Fanny Kemble (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Organization and Personnel of the Shakespearean Company (New York: Russell and Russell, 1961), by T. W. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
- Frank Merriwell on the Road: or, The All-Star Combination (New York: Street and Smith, c1898), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text)
- Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Joseph Litvak (HTML at UC Press)
- The Children's Educational Theatre (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901), by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (page images at Google; US access only)
- Passionate Amateurs: Theatre, Communism, and Love (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Nicholas Peter Ridout
- Theatre and War: Notes From the Field (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Nandita Dinesh (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
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