Cecile Starr papers, 1925-2001

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Series II: Cecile Starr



Box 2 Folder 24 Starr Cecile . Personal documents: copy of birth certificate, wedding invitation, wedding license, resume, personal will, financial and legal documents; typed memoir with corrections. [v.p.] New York [n.d.] 1957-1995 1 Folder 5 pages t.ms., 1957-1995


Box 2 Folder 25 Starr Cecile. School records; detailed childhood and contemporary recollections handwritten by Starr; McMain High School annual (1937); mementos. New Orleans, LA 1921-1942 1 Folder, 1921-1942

(Filed by Cecile Starr "New Orleans 1921-1937.")


Box 2 Folder 26 Joseph, Eleanor Cohen. Correspondence with Cecile Starr. [n.p.] 1944-1996 1 Folder, 1944-1996

(Distant Lightman cousin of Cecile Starr.)


Box 2 Folder 27 Louisiana State University. Personal and administrative correspondence; diploma Baton Rouge, LA, 1937-1941

(Correspondence with friends extends beyond college years.)


Box 2 Folder 28 Fritsch, Peter. Correspondence with Peter Fritsch; articles and clippings regarding Fritsch, Mia Fritsch and James Agee. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1940-1990 1 Folder, 1940-1990


Box 2 Folder 29 Correspondence and clippings regarding Southern writers including James Agee, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell. [v.p.] [n.d.] 1953-1989 1 Folder, 1953-1989

(Filed by Cecile Starr "Growing Up in the Literary South.")



Box 11 Folder 103 Stafford, Jean. Varies items include articles, photocopies of two way correspondence; correspondence with rare book collectors, clippings, excerpts of Stafford's writing, personal accounts by Starr. [v.p.] 1978-1998 1 Folder, 1978-1998

(Original copies of correspondence and materials purchased by the University of Colorado at Boulder.)



Box 13 Cecile Starr birthday cards and letters received


Box 13 Cecile Starr notices received

Most from women film makers.


Box 13 Cecile Starr correspondence, circa 1990s


Box 13 Cecile Starr correspondence regarding films -- United States, circa 2000s


Box 13 Criticism


Box 13 "How To Be Your Own Movie Critic"


Box 13 Early films


Box 13 Feature script


Box 13 "Fellow Citizen, A. Lincoln" film


Box 13 "Horses, Horses, Horses" film project


Box 13 Cecile Starr "Introduction + Ideas"

For a planned book on women film makers.


Box 13 Cecile Starr photos


Box 13 Cecile Starr rejected articles



Box 14 Cecile Starr education


Box 14 Cecile Starr film book reviews


Box 14 Out-of-date flyers


Box 14 Film rentals, 2001


Box 14 Harvard, Houghton Library, 2004-2006

Notes on material sold.


Box 14 Harvard, Houghton Library, 2005-2010

Notes on material sold.


Box 14 Harvard and University of Colorado

Notes on material sold.


Box 14 Cecile Starr, "My Psychiatrists"


Box 14 Cecile Starr correspondence with people with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)


Box 14 Cecile Starr medical (New York City)

Restricted until 2089.


Box 14 Childhood sexual abuse (Mount Sinai)

Restricted until 2089.