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Marie Gale Bainbridge collection (PA 5), Performing Arts Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Three folders of materials were received from Dorothy Klocksein in March 1996.
Marie Gale Bainbridge was a Minneapolis actress. She joined the Bainbridge Players upon coming to Minnesota from Mason City, Iowa in 1914. She married her husband, A.G. ("Buzz") Bainbridge, Jr., the organizer of the Bainbridge Players, after World War I. When the company disbanded in the 1930s, she officially retired from the stage, but made several guest appearances at performances at the Old Log Theatre. Marie Bainbridge died in 1972 at the age of 79.
The collection includes scrapbooks, reviews, programs, and articles about the Bainbridge Players and about individual actors and actresses in the company, which included Johnny Dilson, Grace George, and Victor Jory.
An unpublished finding aid with detailed contents is available in the Manuscripts Division.
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