Autograph Collection.- Actors & Entertainers

Autograph Collection.- Actors & Entertainers

Group of letters, programmes, clipped signatures and photographs signed by various actors, dancers and choreographers, including: Sybil Thorndike (clipped signature); Sir Frederick Ashton (thank you letter to Mr Horace Fitch "You like me seem to go back a long way", 15 May 1967); Marie Rambert (postcard saying in part "The whole thing was a great surprise to me. We are just back from Spain, my company had a great success", 30 August 1956); Laurence Olivier (signed photograph and signed souvenir cast list for the production of Othello at the National Theatre, 1965); Evelyn Laye (signature inscribed "To Jimmie with my love", 1950); Noel Coward and Joyce Carey (on same album page); Arthur Askey (signed album page); Sir Charles Hawtrey (autograph letter denying his permission to play 'The Private Secretary' as "the play is not printed at present", 3 September, n.d.); John Toole (letter replying to an autograph request, 11 March 1880); Sir Henry Irving (two letters, one to Mr Clifford, saying he won;t be able to attend his daughter's wedding, 14 May 1905); Irene Vanbrugh (letter to Oscar Beninger, saying she has read his play with much interest but adding "my plans for the next year are so boned up with 'Lord Quex' that I could not possibly see my way to playing any other part now . I think that Jim is too broad a part for me to attempt just yet", 1 January 1900); Ellen Terry (autograph note to Gladys "Go on and prosper", 20 June n.y.); John Hare (thank you letter saying how happy he is to be able "to please an old friend and most discerning critic", 25 November 1911); Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (ink signature on paper and autograph letter enquiring after some tickets); Dame Genevieve Ward (clipped signature); Sir Gerald Du Maurier (letter to Mr Clifford about one of his plays "You know how much I admire your writing and the charm of your people - too much, indeed to introduce them to the public at present, or for some time to come...I speak as a business man", 2 March [1907?]); Sir Squire Bancroft (letter to Mr Sheppard mentioning a "hurried visit to Paris", 25 March 1889); Henry Ainley (letter saying how glad he is the recipient enjoyed himself the Thursday before, 9 September 1911); George Grossmith (second page of an autograph letter, n.d.); Hermione Gingold (postcard signed in pencil); Ronald Baker (signed photograph); Joyce Grenfell (postcard reading "Please forgive a postcard to thank you very much for your particularly nice letter. I'm so glad you felt 'assurance'. That is, of course, peace of mind. I've had so many kind letters, that's why I'm having to answer on postcards. No time!", 1 July 1965); Michael Flanders and Donald Swann (souvenir programme for the production of 'At The Drop of Another Hat', Globe Theatre, 1966), Bernard Miles (souvenir programme of 'The Bacchae of Euripides', The Mermaid Theatre, 1964); George Cole, Joan Greenwood Jean Anderson, Maurice Good and Andre Morell (souvenir programme of 'Hedda Gabler', St Martin's Theatre, 1964); Ted Ray (signed postcard); Vera Lynn (signed photograph); Michael Horden 9signed photograph); Isobel Barnett (typed letter to Mr Collins, saying that 'Many a Slip' "it is going on to BBC2 during the summer so if you live near enough to the Birmingham transmitter and have a set that can take BBC2 you can see us all puzzling away in the flesh back on TV", 31 May 1965), with loose pages signed by Alec Guinness, Lena Horne, Virginia Daniels, Tyrone Power, Julia Arnall, Beatrice Campbell, Dennis Price, Jean Simmons, June Whitefield, Griffith Jones, Anouk Aimee, Kay Walsh, David Attenborough, Joe Johnson, Prunella Scales, Maggie Smith, Eric Robinson, Anna Neagle, Peter Scott, Patrick Cargill, George Cole, Richard Briers, Richard Attenborough, Glenda Jackson, Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan, Frankie Vaughan, Richard Dimbleby and a few others, v.s., many letters with pencil annotations in collector's hand, late 19th century-20th century (quantity)

Dimensions: in an envelope measuring 30 x 22cm