Dwight Godwin - Biographical Ephemera. Miscellaneous biographical information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and professional career of Dwight Godwin (Dancer, actor, photographer, filmmaker, DENISHAWN/Jacob's Pillow associate, educator and University of Florida Director for Photographic and Motion Picture Services) including various newspaper and magazine clippings, publicity and production photographs (various sizes/black and white - in his photography darkroom, as a dancer at Jacob's Pillow, in the 1939 Broadway production of STARS IN YOUR EYES with Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante and Dan Dailey, etc.), etc. According to Robert Midgett in the University of Florida Alligator (c. 1980: "...Many times Godwin heard it said that in order to become a better actor, it is necessary to study dance, so in 1936 he began studying at the School of the American Ballet...Also at this time, Godwin started studying photography, and some of his pictures were published in the New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune...in late 1937...he got a part as a dancer in the Broadway musical STARS IN YOUR EYES starring Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante...Godwin appeared in the Broadway musical LOUISIANA PURCHASE with Victor Moore and Vera Zorina...After this musical, Godwin worked in the American Ballet Theater, but he resigned in 1941 to become a full-time professional photographer in ballet and theater..." SEE. ALSO: American Dance Films Association - Box 8/Folder 4

Dwight Godwin - Biographical Ephemera. Miscellaneous biographical information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and professional career of Dwight Godwin (Dancer, actor, photographer, filmmaker, DENISHAWN/Jacob's Pillow associate, educator and University of Florida Director for Photographic and Motion Picture Services) including various newspaper and magazine clippings, publicity and production photographs (various sizes/black and white - in his photography darkroom, as a dancer at Jacob's Pillow, in the 1939 Broadway production of STARS IN YOUR EYES with Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante and Dan Dailey, etc.), etc. According to Robert Midgett in the University of Florida Alligator (c. 1980: "...Many times Godwin heard it said that in order to become a better actor, it is necessary to study dance, so in 1936 he began studying at the School of the American Ballet...Also at this time, Godwin started studying photography, and some of his pictures were published in the New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune...in late 1937...he got a part as a dancer in the Broadway musical STARS IN YOUR EYES starring Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante...Godwin appeared in the Broadway musical LOUISIANA PURCHASE with Victor Moore and Vera Zorina...After this musical, Godwin worked in the American Ballet Theater, but he resigned in 1941 to become a full-time professional photographer in ballet and theater..." SEE. ALSO: American Dance Films Association - Box 8/Folder 4, Box: 12, Folder: 1. Denishawn Dance Collection, MS Group 035. Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/158084 Accessed February 10, 2026.