{"id":2253,"date":"2013-12-06T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=733"},"modified":"2013-12-06T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:00:03","slug":"shirley-rich-casting-director-and-ui-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2013\/12\/06\/shirley-rich-casting-director-and-ui-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Rich, casting director and UI alum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/shirley1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-734\" alt=\"shirley1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/shirley1.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/shirley2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-735\" alt=\"shirley2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/shirley2-745x1024.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"331\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/shirley3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-736\" alt=\"shirley3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/shirley3-691x1024.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I watched \u201cThe Sound of Music Live!\u201d last night, and with musicals on the brain, I hoped we had something theatrical in the archives. And what do you know, here is Shirley Rich in her office at Rodgers &amp; Hammerstein! She worked there as an assistant casting director from 1948 to 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Rich grew up in Ottumwa, Iowa, and her parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. In 1969, she founded Shirley Rich Casting, where she worked as a freelance casting director on such films as <em>Taps<\/em>, S<em>aturday Night Fever<\/em>, and <em>Kramer vs. Kramer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Shirley Rich graduated from the University of Iowa in 1944 with a bachelor of fine arts degree. Casting director in theater, television, and film, Rich worked on many productions including\u00a0<em>Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>, <em>The King and I<\/em>, <em>Three Days of the Condor<\/em>, <em>Ryan\u2019s Hope<\/em>, and <em>The Happy Time<\/em> with Eva Gabor.<\/p>\n<p>She began donating her papers to the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives in 1992 &#8211; the collection includes playbills, correspondence, professional files, and even her antique typewriter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collguides.lib.uiowa.edu\/?IWA0055\" >Guide to the Shirley Rich Papers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*This post is duplicated from the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowawomensarchives.tumblr.com\/post\/69210340359\/i-watched-the-sound-of-music-live-last-night\" >Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives Tumblr<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched &ldquo;The Sound of Music Live!&rdquo; last night, and with musicals on the brain, I hoped we had something theatrical in the archives. And what do you know, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}