Dancer and actress Beulah McDonald Shipman (1909-2005), wife of Barry Shipman. Acting under the name Gwynne Shipman in the 1930s, she appeared as the female lead in motion pictures opposite Tom Keene and William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy).
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938; Authors, American--19th century--Biography;Frontier and pioneer life in literature; West (U.S.) in literature; West (U.S.)--Intellectual life;
An actor and an actress at Boise Junior College, both dressed as biblical characters. The caption in the yearbook reads "Samson's gotta show off his muscles."
Postcard of Nell Shipman as Sara De Sota, in the Pageant of Sara De Sota in Sarasota, Florida, 1928. "The legend of Sara De Sota will be re-enacted in the city tonight with Miss Nell Shipman, famous movie actress, portraying the part of Sara De...
A scene from the musical play "The Old Maid and the Thief" at Boise College. The actress on the left is Mary Robbins, and Janet Vetter is on the right.
Illustration on the dust jacket of "Under the Crescent," the novelization of the stories Shipman wrote for the the Universal movie series of the same name. Shipman's first years in Hollywood were spent writing stories and scenarios for the silent...
