Charles Chauvel and Elsa Chauvel Photographs and Papers

Photocopies of newspaper and book articles about Charles and Elsa Chauvel.

Photocopies of newspaper and book articles about Charles and Elsa Chauvel.

Newspaper and magazine cuttings, mostly relating to the films 'The Rats of Tobruk', 'Jedda' and 'Heritage'; copies of articles written by Charles in America and a series of articles from the 'Telegraph' about Pitcairn Island.

Newspaper clippings and certificate relating to Elsa Chauvel.

Newspaper clippings about the film 'In the Wake of the Bounty'.

Newspaper clippings about the films 'Greenhide' and 'The Moth of Moonbi'.

Newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding the film 'Heritage'.

Newspaper clippings and papers relating to Charles and Elsa Chauvel.

Newspaper clippings about Elsa Chauvel's charity work.

Papers and newspaper clippings relating to the Chauvel family and their film career.

Newspaper clippings about Charles and Elsa Chauvel.

Newspaper clippings about Elsa Chauvel.

Newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding the film 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'.

Newspaper clippings about the film 'The Rats of Tobruk'.

Newspaper clippings about the film 'Uncivilised'.

Newspaper clippings and royalty statement relating to the Chauvels' book and television series 'Walkabout'.

Newspaper clippings about the film 'Sons of Matthew'.

Newspaper clippings about the film 'Jedda'.

Newspaper clippings about Charles Chauvel's career.

Newspaper clippings relating ot the actress Marcelle Marnay who starred in the film 'Uncivilised' and photographs and a souvenir card relating to the film 'Heritage'.

Newspaper clippings about Charles Chauvel and about the films The Rats of Tobruk' and 'Uncivilised'.

Promotional material including posters and photographs relating to various Chauvel films including 'Heritage'; 'Uncivilised'; 'Sons of Matthew'; 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'; 'The Rats of Tobruk'; 'In the Wake of the Bounty'; 'The Moth of Moonby'; 'Jedda'. and the TV series 'Australian Walkabout'. Also includes advertisements for the filmmakers Charles and Elsa Chauvel.

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Promotional material including posters, programmes, invitations, clippings, books, lobby cards and photographs for various Chauvel films including: 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'; 'Uncivilised'; 'Jedda'; 'Heritage'; 'Sons of Matthew'; 'In the Wake of the Bounty'; 'The Moth of Moonbi'; 'Greenhide' and 'The Rats of Tobruk' and various career retrospectives.

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Photographs relating to the film 'The Rats of Tobruk' including photographs of Grant Taylor; Chips Rafferty; Pauline Garrick; Peter Finch and George Heath. Also includes two photographs that are possibly from the shooting of the film 'Sons of Matthew'.

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Photographs relating to the film 'In the Wake of the Bounty' including photographs of Errol Flynn and Mayne Linton. Also includes a photograph of the Chauvels taken on the set of the film 'Top of the Town' and at a studio party with Adrian Feint, Hera Roberts, Sydney Ure Smith and Raynor Hoff.

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Photographs of Charles and Elsa Chauvel with various film industry figures including: Gene Lockhart; Irvin S Cole; Leo Carrillo; Alfredo Gondilfi; Victor McLaglen; Slim Summerville; John Mills; James Mason; Percy Kilbride; Marjorie Main; Sonja Henje; Tyrone Power; Stanley Crick; Sir Ralph Richardson; Dame Sybil Thorndike; Michael Redgrave; Wendy Barrie; Douglas Fairbanks; Robert Curtis; Fred Niblo and Lloyd Nosler. Also includes a publicity photograph of Errol Flynn.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Jedda' including photographs of Bill Harney; Carl Kayser; Margaret Dingle; Robert Tudawali; Rosalie Kunoth; Paul Reynell; Philip Pike and Betty Suttor.

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Personal photographs featuring Charles and Elsa Chauvel including:

• Promotional material for the film 'The Jackaroo of Coolabong', one of Snowy Baker's silent films. Charles Chauvel had a small part in the film;
• Charles and Susanne Chauvel on the set of 'The Rats of Tobruk';
• Elsa Chauvel's early acting career;
• Elsa Chauvel receiving the OBE at Government House in 1964;
• Elsa Chauvel's fundraising activities;
• Television show 'This is Your Life' for Michael Pate;
• Elsa Chauvel with the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler, and Lady Cutler.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Sons of Matthew' including photographs of John O'Malley; Thelma Scott; Jimmy White; John Unicomb; Wendy Gibb; Ken Wayne; ​​​​​​​Michael Pate​​​​​​​; Nonnie Pfeifer; Betty Orme; Laurel Young; Carrie Moore; Dora Birtles, Bernard O'Reilly; Alec Kallaway; Reg Baker; Tommy Burns; Bert Nicholas; Rodney Fielder; Marion Dickson; Douglas Smith; Barbara Armstrong; Tom Collins; Max Lemon; George Hurst; Gwen Meredith; Maxwell Dunn and John Ewart.

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Personal photographs featuring Charles, Elsa and Suzanne Chauvel. Includes photographs of Cecil Madden, Jacques Sernas, Errol Flynn, Phil Pike and Miles Franklin.

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Personal photographs featuring Charles Chauvel. Photographs include:

• Portrait of Charles Chauvel in his 20s. Negative number: 175683.
• Portrait of Charles Chauvel as a young man. Photographer: Freeman & Co.  Negative number: 175690.
• Charles Chauvel in his 20s. Negative number: 175719.
• Charles Chauvel fishing during a boating trip on the Hawkesbury River. Negative number: 175687.
• Charles Chauvel with a script at a friend's property at Lingdooley Ranch, Santa Paula, California. The Chauvels occasionally stayed here while working on scripts. Negative number: 175697.
• Charles Chauvel in a relaxed mood. Negative number: 175688.
• Charles Chauvel. Negative number: 175720.
• Charles Chauvel. Negative number: 175718.
• Charles Chauvel. Negative number: 175718175682.
• A portrait of Charles Chauvel. Negative number: 175722.

Photographs relating to the film 'Forty Thousand Horsemen' including photographs of Grant Taylor; Pat Twohill; Chips Rafferty; Betty Bryant; Claude Turtin; George Heath; Tasman Higgins; Eric Reiman and Frank Hurley.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Forty Thousand Horsemen' including photographs of Grant Taylor; Pat Twohill; Chips Rafferty; Betty Bryant; Claude Turtin; Major G A Ferguson and Roy Mannix.

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Photographs relating to the films 'The Moth of Moonbi' and 'Greenhide' including photographs of Charles O'Mara; Doris Ashwin; Arthur Tauchert; Al Burne; Billie Stokes; George Outridge; Elsa Sylvaney; Bruce Gordon; Jules Murray-Prior and Frank Thorn.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Uncivilised' including photographs of Margot Rhys; Ashton Jarry; Dennis Hoey; James Coleman; Claude Fleming and Frank Harvey.

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Personal photographs featuring Charles and Elsa Chauvel and photographs relating to 'The Rats of Tobruk' and 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'. Includes photographs of Henry Hathaway; Sir Ralph and Lady Cilento; Lindley and Marie Evans; Doris Nolan; Jack Pierce; Nan Grey (now Mrs Frankie Laine); Louise Beavers; Margaret Hamilton; Robert Cavanagh; Betty Silverstein, (formerly Betty Bryant); Bill Gordon and Nick Perry.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Heritage' including photographs of Franklyn Bennett; Margot Rhys; Peggy Maguire; Dora Mostyn; Mary Maguire and Charles Kingsford Smith; John Heyer; Alan Mill; Arthur Higgins; Bert Holt; Joe Valli; Dave Weir; Norman French and Frank Harvey.

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Photographs relating to the TV series 'Australian Walkabout' including photographs of Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Jedda' including photographs of Bill Harney; Carl Kayser; Robert Tudawali; Rosalie Kunoth; Paul Reynell; Margaret Dingle; Betty Suttor and Phil Pike.

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Photographs relating to the film 'In the Wake of the Bounty' including photographs of Harriett McCoy; Benjamin Young; Ann McCoy; Edwin Christian; William Christian; Errol Flynn; Rene Young; Dick Fairclough; Queen Marau Pomare; Vula Christian; Princesses Tekau Pomare and Thierry Pomare and a drawing of King Pomare.

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Photographs relating to the film 'In the Wake of the Bounty' including photographs of Pervis Young; Harriett McCoy; Benjamin Young; William Christian; Tasman Higgins; Parkin Christian; Ann McCoy; Edwin Christian; Errol Flynn; Rene Young; Dick Fairclough and Queen Marau Pomare.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'. Photographs include:

• Betty Bryant in the role of Juliette Rouget with her father Paul Rouget (played by Claude Turtin) and an Arab servant. Negative number: 176392. The glass negative is in Box 18681.
• Pat Twohill, Chips Rafferty and Grant Taylor in 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'. Negative number: 176391. The glass negative is in Box 18681.
• Text from the poster for 'Forty Thousand Horsemen'. Negative number: 176390. The glass negative is in Box 18681.

Photographs relating to the film 'Heritage' including photographs of Franklyn Bennett; Margot Rhys; Peggy Maguire and Norman French.

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Personal photographs featuring Charles, Elsa and Suzanne Chauvel and photographs relating to 'Australian Walkabout' including photographs of Aboriginal painters Cordula and Walter Ebaterinja.

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Photographs relating to the film 'The Rats of Tobruk' including photographs of Grant Taylor; Chips Rafferty; George Heath; Mary Gay; Peter Finch and George Wallace.

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Photographs and negatives relating to the TV series 'Australian Walkabout'.

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Photographs and negatives relating to the film 'Forty Thousand Horsemen' including photographs of Grant Taylor; Pat Twohill; Chips Rafferty; Betty Bryant; Major G. A. Ferguson and Roy Mannix.

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Photographs and negatives relating to the film 'Forty Thousand Horsemen' including photographs of Grant Taylor; Pat Twohill; Chips Rafferty; Betty Bryant; Eric Reiman and George Heath.

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Photographs relating to the film 'Jedda' including photographs of Robert Tudawali, Rosalie Kunoth and Margaret Dingle.

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Photographs relating to the TV series 'Australian Walkabout'. Photographs include:

• A woman with a sleeping baby (the photograph was taken during the making of 'Walkabout'). Negative number: 175745.
• A young woman with her baby, negative number: 175737.
• Two Aboriginal children sitting on cracked, dried mud. Negative numbers: 175747, 176057, 175741.
• A little girl, smiling. Negative number: 175739.
• Two women in the river, carrying wood. Negative number: 175742.
• A photograph taken during the making of 'Walkabout': Gul-Gul preparing a turtle. Negative number: 175752.
• A painted Aboriginal man dancing. Negative number: 175753.
• An Aboriginal elder from Central Australia. Negative number: 175740.
• An Aboriginal man with a spear. Negative number: 175740.
• A photograph taken during a name-giving ceremony. Negative number: 175744.

A photograph of Charles Chauvel, sent by Charles to his daughter Suzanne. On the back of the photograph: 'Just a little "snap" taken on the lawn of Bubette Abercrombie up near Santa Paula. Love from Dad.' Negative number: 175684.

Photographs relating to the film 'In the Wake of the Bounty' including photographs of Errol Flynn; Mayne Linton; Benjamin Young and Edwin Christian. 

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Personal photographs featuring Charles and Elsa Chauvel and one photograph of Snowy Baker. Photographs include:

• An outdoor film set in Hollywood in the 1920s. Negative number: 176705.
• Elsa, lower left, in a promotional photograph for a concert or a stage show in Cape Town, 1915. Negative number: 176706.
• Elsa, second from the right, with fellow members of the cast of 'The Silent Witness' stage play in South Africa in the early 1920s. Negative number: 176711.
• Elsa in 'Peg o' My Heart' (Sydney and Stanthorpe, early 1920s). Negative number: 176718.
• Charles Chauvel and Douglas Fairbanks during the filming of 'Thief of Bagdad' in Hollywood in the 1920s. Negative numbers: 176708, 175694.
• A photograph of Charles' friend Snowy Baker with an inscription for Charles, 1923. Negative number: 176716.

Personal photographs featuring Charles and Elsa Chauvel. Photographs include:

• Charles and Elsa Chauvel on the set of 'Love in a Bungalow', Universal Studios, Hollywood: Charles Chauvel, Nan Grey, Louise Beavers, Margaret Hamilton, Robert Cavanagh and Elsa Chauvel. Negative number: 175658.
• Charles with a group at a Hollywood film studio. One of the men is actor Tom Mix. Negative number: 176140.
• Charles Chauvel with actor Victor McLaglen. Negative number: 175706.
• Left to right: Gene Lockhart, actor and writer; Charles Chauvel; Irvin S Cole, writer and President of the Author's Club; Les Carrillo, actor, at a luncheon given for Charles at the Author's Club, Hollywood. Negative number: 175699.
• Charles Chauvel with technical staff at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Negative number: 175703.
• Elsa taking lessons in makeup from Jack Pierce, the makeup expert at Universal Studios, Hollywood (1938). Jack Pierce was well known for his Frankenstein makeup. Negative number: 175769.
• Charles and Elsa Chauvel with Jack Pierce, Universal Studios' top makeup artist. Negative number: 176415.
• Elsa taking lessons in makeup from Jack Pierce, the makeup expert at Universal Studios, Hollywood (1938). Negative number: 175770.
• Charles and Elsa Chauvel with Doris Nolan who starred in 'Love in a Bungalow'.   Negative number: 175654.
• Charles and Elsa Chauvel with Doris Nolan and two actors on the set at Universal Studios in 1938. Negative number: 176412.

Photographs featuring the films: 'Heritage'; 'The Moth of Moonbi' and 'In the Wake of the Bounty'. Photographs include:

• The cast of 'Heritage' in costumes, taking a ride in a horse-drawn coach around Melbourne to advertise the film. Negative number: 176700.
• Charles Chauvel's uncle, Sir Harry Chauvel, visiting the film studio during the making of the film 'Heritage'.
• Norman French and Elsa Chauvel as Governor and Mrs Macquarie in 'Heritage'. Negative number: 176702.
• Women disembarking from the 'bride ship' in the film 'Heritage' (a studio set). Negative number: 176745.
• Frank Harvey as Governor Phillip. Negative number: 176746.
• Charles Chauvel and Billie Stokes as Aborigines in the film 'Moth of Moonbi', 1925. Negative number: 175402.
• A scene from the 'The Moth of Moonbi', Charles Chauvel's first film. From left: Charles O'Mara, Doris Ashwin, Arthur Tauchert. Negative number: 176135.
• The Chauvels with the people from Pitcairn Island climbing up the cliff face to 'Christian's Cave' with the help of ropes. Negative number: 176697.

Photographs featuring the TV series 'Australian Walkabout'.

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Personal photographs featuring Charles and Elsa Chauvel. Photographs include:

• Charles and Elsa Chauvel with Errol Flynn in London, 1954. Negative number: 176696.
• An article about Elsa Chauvel in the column 'Personalities of the Week' in 'The Photoplayer and Talkies' magazine. Negative number: 175785.
• Charles Chauvel filming on location. Negative number: 176736.
• Elsa Chauvel with a group of people on horseback. Possibly taken in Hollywood in 1929. Negative number: 176720.
• Charles Chauvel with a script at a friend's property at Lingdooley Ranch, Santa Paula, California. The Chauvels occasionally stayed here while working on scripts. Negative number: 176747.
• Charles Chauvel in a canoe. Negative numbers: 176048, 176194.
• A photograph of Charles Chauvel, sent by Charles to his daughter Suzanne. On the back of the photograph: 'Just a little "snap" taken on the lawn of Bubette Abercrombie up near Santa Paula. Love from Dad.' Negative number: 176694.
• Charles Chauvel with an unidentified man. Negative number: 176713.
• A portrait of Charles Chauvel in his 20s. Negative number: 176717.
• Charles Chauvel with actor Slim Summerville on the set of 'The Road Back', Hollywood. Negative number: 176714.
• A group of people with Charles and Elsa: Chips Rafferty in the front, second from the right and Grant Taylor in the middle row, on the left. Negative number: 176147.
• Charles and Elsa with James Mason at Universal Studios, Hollywood in 1949. Negative number: 176142.
• Charles and Elsa in Caliente, Mexico, with the Australian composer Lindley Evans and his wife (1937). Negative number: 175620.

96 glass plate negatives relating to the films: 'In the Wake of the Bounty'; 'Forty Thousand Horsemen' and 'Heritage'. Also includes five colour transparencies of film posters for 'Sons of Matthew' and 'Jedda'.

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'How they made Sons of Matthew': a book by Maxwell Dunn.

Photograph and article relating to the first unit of the Upper Clarence Light Horse on Tabulam Station by Charles H.E. Chauvel in 1885.

Large posters for the film 'Sons of Matthew'.