http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tq5zz7 No online items Guide to the Dan Guerrero Collection on Latino Entertainment and the Arts CEMA 78 Mari Khasmanyan, 2017. UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara 93106-9010
[email protected] URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections CEMA 78 1 Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections Title: Dan Guerrero Collection on Latino Entertainment and the Arts Identifier/Call Number: CEMA 78 Physical Description: 20 Linear Feet17 document boxes, 8 oversize boxes, 11 photo albums, 1 small card file box, and tapes Date (inclusive): 1956-2016 Abstract: The collection documents Latino cultural and entertainment history of recent years, focusing on Dan Guerrero's professional life in the world of entertainment as well as his personal family life. It includes video and audio tapes of selected programming, scripts, publicity items, programs, and posters relating to the Latino community. There are photographs relative to Mexican American art and culture, transcripts of interviews with various members of the Latino entertainment industry. A significant amount of correspondence, audio tapes, video tapes, color slides and other items concern his close friend, the late Carlos Almaraz, a veteran Chicano artist. Other notable celebrities represented are Vikki Carr, Lorenzo Lamas, Cheech Marin, Ricardo Montalban, Kenny Ortega, Paul Rodriguez, Cesar Romero, Lalo Schifrin, Edward James Olmos and Jimmy Smits. The collection is of great value to the study and understanding of Latino entertainment and the arts in the last decades of the 20th Century.