Auction Date:2013 May 15 @ 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
TLS signed “Marlene,” one page, 8 x 10, April 21, 1965. Dietrich writes to “Binkie” [Hugh Beaumont of the Globe Theatre in London]. In part: “I am about to leave the house on this crazy trip. I don’t make a good prostitute and that is why it is tough. What an easy life I could have had if I had had that talent too. My Edinburgh contract is in order, it is still being written, I will be in the ‘Variety Artist’s Union’ naturally. But you can still tell the performing rights people that they can sue me for the Pounds 324.5.1. I will not pay any such sum. There is no such thing in all the other countries I have worked in. The Theatre Owner takes care of it and the artists are never bothered. I checked that point again with my American agents and am quite sure about this. Anyway, I am singing many numbers that are in public domain and nobody gets the percentages they want from me. I understand that Chevalier did not pay any performing rights at all. He was never bothered….I am hired to perform, like actors are hired to perform a play—they surely do not pay performing rights for the play they are in. Please talk to Maria about Ornadel. We thought the man from the Palladium is now (or as now) with Eartha Kitt and Maria went to hear him and did not like him at all.” In very good condition, with several pencil notations, staple holes, and some wrinkling.
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