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WELLES ORSON: (1915-1985) American actor & film director, Academy Award winner. A good T.L.S., Orson
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WELLES ORSON: (1915-1985) American actor & film director, Academy Award winner. A good T.L.S., Orson
WELLES ORSON: (1915-1985) American actor & film director, Academy Award winner. A good T.L.S., Orson, with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, 4to, Theatre Edouard VII, Paris, 20th July 1950, to Leonard Lyons ('Dearest Lennie'). Welles states that his correspondent's latest letter had got mislaid in his dressing room ('amidst a lot of unproduced movie scripts and unpaid bills') and continues to mention that George Kaufman had been in Paris recently ('and was nice enough to laugh loud and long at the Lobster'), further recounting an anecdote, 'He had just been in England where he visited Larry and Vivian (sic). The subject of Sister Carrie came up, and George announced that the only living actor for the role of Hurstwood was in his opinion Orson Welles. The response to this suggestion, he told me, was more than ordinarily chilly; but instead of giving up, he pressed on and delivered an extensive lecture on the point that no other performer besides Welles could really touch the part at all. It was only later in the evening that he discovered his host was leaving for Hollywood to play Hurstwood! George says getting out of that one was the toughest job he has ever taken on'. A letter of amusing content. Some very light overall surface creasing, otherwise VG
Leonard Lyons (1906-1976) American newspaper columnist for the New York Post where his columns, The Lyons Den, became a New York institution covering theatre, movies, politics and art.
The Unthinking Lobster was one of two one-act plays, the other being Time Runs, staged by Welles in 1950, which he also wrote and starred in. Le Monde called the show a masterpiece of scenic art.
George S. Kaufman (1889-1961) American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist and drama critic.
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) English actor, Academy Award winner. Olivier starred in the romance film Carrie (1952), based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, in the role of George Hurstwood, opposite Jennifer Jones as Carrie Meeber.
Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) English actress, Academy Award winner. Wife of Laurence Olivier from 1940-60.
