{"id":733,"date":"2013-12-06T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=733"},"modified":"2021-01-18T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:08:31","slug":"shirley-rich-casting-director-and-ui-alum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2013\/12\/06\/shirley-rich-casting-director-and-ui-alum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Rich, casting director and UI alum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 & Hammerstein! She worked there as an assistant casting director from 1948 to 1951.<\/p>\n

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 Taps<\/em>, Saturday Night Fever<\/em>, and Kramer vs. Kramer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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 Fiddler on the Roof<\/em>, The King and I<\/em>, Three Days of the Condor<\/em>, Ryan\u2019s Hope<\/em>, and The Happy Time<\/em> with Eva Gabor.<\/p>\n

She began donating her papers to the Iowa Women\u2019s Archives in 1992 – the collection includes playbills, correspondence, professional files, and even her antique typewriter.<\/p>\n

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