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2008-042/004(26) · Item · 1968
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Wartime newspapers
2008-042/009(06) · File · 1941-1950
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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).

US Repertory Group
2008-042/009(03) · File · Apr.-June 1961
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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

2008-042/004(17) · File · 1947
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Travel : Israel
2008-042/004(34) · File · 2000
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File includes ephemera from a wineries, the Tannenbaum, hotels; a tour intinerary; and maps.

2008-042/004(24) · File · 1961, 1998
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Starlight theatre
2008-042/004(25) · Item · 1967
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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”.

Sewing and knitting
2008-042/004(02) · File · [198-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.”

2008-042/008(05) · File · [194-?], 1949
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Scrapbook of my travels
2008-042/009(08) · Item · [193-]-1948
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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

Rockettes
2008-042/004(18) · File · 1947-2006
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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

Red Skelton
2008-042/004(31) · File · 1993-1997, [199-]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File includes a program from a performance at the O'Keefe Centre for the Performing Arts in September 1993 and a catalogue for limited editions of Red Skelton.

2008-042/005(01) · File · [194-?]-[199-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

2008-042/005(02) · File · 1961-1989, [199-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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).

Programs : ballet
2008-042/005(03) · File · 1947-1984
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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).

Photographs
2008-042/006(02) · File · 1939-2003
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Photographs
2008-042/006(03) · File · 1940, 1947, 1974, 2007
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

2008-042/003(01) · File · [193-], 1935-1947
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

2008-042/003(02) · File · 1935
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

2008-042/003(03) · File · 1920-1960, [198-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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,

2008-042/003(04) · File · [193-]-1994
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

2008-042/002(29) · File · [193-]-1981
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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).

2008-042/002(27) · File · [194-], 1987
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(24) · File · 1962-[198-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(02) · File · [193-]-1939
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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 2
2008-042/002(03) · File · 1940-1949
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(04) · File · 1950-1959
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(06) · File · 1969-1976
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(07) · File · 1980-1989
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File includes a newspaper clipping of Heller children in the Toronto Star, a greeting card from the Krasnows, TOPA, Laurus Miller, Dorothy Cohen, Toronto, Florida, Niagara Falls, the American Ballet Theatre, the Kowakien Hakone Hotel in Japan, Ontario Place, Greenwood race track, Sonya Chaplia, Montreal, Beatrice Friedmen, Julia Harris, Jack Friedman, Quebec Adrondacks, Stacey Heller, the National Ballet, Anne Ditchburn, China, Jan Scott, Alec Robert, Japan, Hawaii, Miriam Heller, Barbara Heller, David Heller, Lisa Heller, Chicago, CBC, Lulla Franklin, Fred Lasswell, Alec Haisley, Jason Forino, and Ian Haisley.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(08) · File · 1990-1999
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File includes photographs of TOPA, National Ballet of Spain, Lisa Glassman, Jamie Glassman, Mickey Heller, Lula Franklin, Barbara Heller, the Rabinowitz Caplan wedding, BOCA, Graham Langer, the Strawberry Festival, and Fred's honorary doctorate of human letters.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(05) · File · 1960-1969
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.

Photo album 2
2008-042/002(09) · File · 2000-2003, [200-]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File includes photographs of the Kesselman family,Zoe Forino, Cory Glassman, and Mark Heller.

Photo album 1 : cartoons
2008-042/001(09) · File · 1987-1995
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File includes correspondence, photocopies, news clippings, and photographs of Fred and Shirley Lasswell (Snuffy Smith)(Red Ryder).

Photo album 1
2008-042/001(12) · File · [199-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

File contains collected ephemera including a calendar and a signed head shot from Darleen Valentine.

Pension credit
2008-042/004(28) · Item · [1979?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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

2008-042/004(07) · File · [196-?], 1967-1998, [199-?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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

2008-042/004(36) · File · 25 Aug. 1941
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

Items consists of article from the Toronto Daily Start titled “'Mid dazzling lights and a riot of color, coliseum chorus born” about the CNE which features a photo of Heller (uncredited).

Maps
2008-042/008(04) · File · [193-?]-[1961?]
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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).

Les Folies
2008-042/004(27) · File · [1972?], 1993
Part of Jeanette Heller fonds

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.