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Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn

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Auction Date:2011 Jul 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS signed “Audrey,” seven pages on five light blue sheets (on two pages she uses both sides), plus an additional postscript page, 6 x 8, personal letterhead, no date but circa 1964. Hepburn writes legendary film director George Cukor concerning the holidays and sending congratulations on his winning the New York City Critics Best Film Award. In part: “Have you heard? Ever since A.H.F. [Audrey Hepburn Ferrer] did M.F.L. [My Fair Lady] she’s had gold luggage tags on her suitcases and that’s not all of it etc. etc. sssssssss. Wherever you go that’s what you hear. Next thing will be U.P. HOT FLASH GREATEST GOLD ROBBERY. Suitcases belonging to….were stolen from a plane in MIDAIR—the suitcases were later found discarded floating in the Atlantic but the luggage tags had been brutally torn from their straps….it is rumored they are made of solid gold. Interpol and the F.B.I. are scanning every ski slope for the crumby criminals….there’ll be no end to it….But we don’t care we’d rather be tagged the best dressed suit of cases of the year—than tag along with all the older ordinary leadbery labels around!!! As for popping pills…from the dainty delicacy of a solid gold purse—that’s just the way I expect things to be when I’ve done a movie with Dyordy Cukor. We really are enchanted with our original and adorable presents, and send you a huge hug of thanks—are mad about the smartness of the tags, wait till Doris sees those!!! xxxxx I wonder if sump’in arrived yet from me from N. York ordered special for YOU—but ‘they’ did say it would take awhile. Thought of you much when poor Dame Edith died. I know how deeply fond of her you were. Our Xmas was PERFECT. Snowy, sunny and funny, and also restful—it was never more beautiful here—we were just the three of us & 1/2 staff and all our sweet menagerie.”

Hepburn has added “P.S. and THANK YOU for your dear telegram and the superb notices your sent and CONGRATS on having made the BEST MOVIE of the year for the N.Y. critics. XXXX.” In fine condition with a light horizontal crease, some wrinkling, and a faint paperclip impression at the top of each page.

In 1964, Hepburn starred in My Fair Lady, Cukor’s film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. She added to her star status in her role as Eliza Doolittle, a young flower seller from the slums, who is selected as part of a wager to be schooled on how to speak like a lady. The iconic actress and legendary director forged a close relationship following that experience, with Cukor often expressing his delight with his leading lady. Hepburn, however, stung from the realization that the majority of her songs in My Fair Lady had been dubbed by Marni Nixon, despite a lengthy vocal preparation for the role, and long carried what she saw as the blame for not being able to vocally play the role. Regardless, the film became a box office hit which won Cukor the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award—accolades the actress references here as congratulates him “on having made the BEST MOVIE of the year for the N.Y. critics.” An outstanding letter!
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