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Humphrey Bogart

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Humphrey Bogart

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Auction Date:2013 Apr 25 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
Fabulous collection of materials directly from the family of the founder of Bogart’s very first fan club, Eloise Coates. This huge archive consists of correspondence and photos spanning from the late 1930s to the early 1940s, and includes two authentically signed letters from Bogart to his fan club, one regarding a reunion of his Maltese Falcon co-stars, letters from his wife Mayo, a large collection of letters from Bogart’s secretaries Kathie Sloan and Gale Beatty, with some of the letters signed with Bogart’s name by the respective secretary. Also included is a great assortment of unsigned photos, mostly candids, and many of Bogart at home, on the studio lot, and even several of his beloved boat the ‘Sluggy.’

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, February 18, 1942. Letter to his fan club members addressed “Dear Kids.” In full: “I have just finished another picture, ‘Escape from Crime,’ and now I am off for a short rest on the ‘Sluggy,’ of course taking my cook (Mayo) with me. While on the boat I’ll do my turn for the Coast Guard Auxiliary. On my return, we’ll start work on ‘Across the Pacific,’ which will have John Huston as director and Mary Astor and perhaps Sidney [sic] Greenstreet, all of the ‘Maltese Falcon’ as members of the cast. I hope the fans will enjoy it. I have bought a bicycle and keep it at the studio so that I can ride to lunch at the Lakeside Golf Club, while I am working; thus keeping fit and incidentally having a lot of fun. I registered for the Draft the other day, as I suppose many of you men have.”

TLS, one page, 8.5 x 11, November 4, 1943. Letter to his fan club reads, in part: “I finished ‘Passage to Marseilles’ yesterday, and after a weeks rest on the boat, Mayo and I are planning to leave on Nov. 15th on an over-seas tour of the camps. I have been wanting to do something for the boys in the service and so the Victory Committee has planned this trip for us, and Warner Bros. has agreed to let me go. We shall probably be gone for ten weeks and we ourselves have not been told just where we are to go and we won’t know until we leave. It will be a great experience for us both, a flight of many, many miles and a chance to see the boys near the front lines, we hope. There will be two others in our party, Zero Mostelle [sic] the impersonator and an accordion player as accompanist for Mayo, who will sing for the boys.”

The remainder of the collection includes eight TLSs signed by Mayo Bogart; three ALSs from Mayo; two letters from Bogart’s mother; a letter from his sister; almost 100 letters from Bogart’s secretary Kathy Sloan, 39 letters from his secretary Gale Beatty; and approximately a dozen letters signed by either Mayo or Sunny Bogart. Approximately 100 candid photos of various sizes, many of which include Bogart, some of Mayo, Bogart’s secretaries, and a few of Bogart and Coates, and many of which are notated on the back as far as date and location. Highlights of the included photos are: two of Bogart and Joe Louis, several photos of Humphrey and Mayo on board the Sluggy; Coates and others visiting Bogart’s home; and photos of Bogart on the studio lot. Provenance: Eloise Coats Collection.
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