Vyvyan Donner


Vyvyan Enid Donner was an American fashion editor, film director, screenwriter, theatrical costume designer and caricaturist, perhaps best remembered for narrating numerous Movietone newsreels.

Early life and career

On December 26, 1895, Vyvyan Enid Donner was born in New York City, the only child of Herman Montague and Emma Adelaide Donner. Raised in Brooklyn, Donner attended St. Catherine's Hall and later Adelphi Academy before studying briefly with Ethel Traphagen at Cooper Union and George Bridgman at the Art Students' League. She staged the Movietone newsreel women's fashion sequences for many years.

Partial filmography

  • Silk for Summer Nights
  • Fashion Forecast: For Play Hours
  • Fashion Forecast: For Outdoors
  • Fashion Forecast: For Country Life
  • Behind the Footlights
  • From Morn 'Til Dawn
  • ''Talented Beauties''

    Death

On June 27, 1965, Donner died of natural causes in her home at 205 West 57th Street in Manhattan.

Articles

  • Franc, Alice. . New York Tribune. p. 5
  • Mishkin, Herman. . The Green Book Magazine. p. 108
  • McCabe, Linda Rose. "The Vitalized Silhouette". Arts & Decoration. pp. , ,
  • Times staff. . The New Brunswick Times. p. 4
  • Star staff. . The Seattle Star. p. 10
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Riverine Herald. p. 4
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Riverine Herald. p. 5
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Riverine Herald. p. 3
  • Monitor staff. . Christian Science Monitor. p. 8
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Albany Despatch. p. 4
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Riverine Herald. p. 6
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Riverine Herald. p. 4
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Albany Despatch. p. 4
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The Riverine Herald. p. 4
  • Vincent, Florence Smith. . The Allentown Morning Call. p. 15
  • Times staff. . The Los Angeles Times. p. 73
  • Donner, Vyvyan. . The New York Times. Sec. 8, p. 2
  • Back, Elizabeth Edwards. . Western Mail. p. 25
  • Herald staff. . Sydney Morning Herald. p. 24
  • . Coronet.
  • Turner, Grace. . Washington Evening Star. p. 17
  • Carnegie, Dale. . The Coolidge Examiner. p. 4
  • Inquirer staff. . The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 15
  • Meredith, Ann. "Fashion Movie in the Making." The Akron Beacon-Journal. , , ,
  • Lockerman, Doris. . The Atlanta Constitution. p. 14-C
  • Lockerman, Doris. . The Atlanta Constitution. p. 18
  • Cabot, Cynthia. "18 Nations Join in Shore Fashion Revue". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 37
  • McCleod, Edyth Thornton. . Tyler Morning Telegraph. p. 32

    Books

  • Chase, Ilka. '. Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books. pp. 243–244.
  • . Case on Appeal, Volume Two—Pages 753-1561. Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division—First Department. July 21, 1937. pp. 774–783.
  • Callahan, Michael. . New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 57–61..
  • Thompson, Neal '. New York: Crown Pubnlishing. pp. 58, 286, 310, 343, 368
  • Webb, Graham. . Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers..