Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 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
TLS signed “George,” two thin pages, 8 x 10, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios LTD. letterhead, July 14, 1948. In a letter to composer, Cole Porter, Cukor writes, in part: “We are half-way through the picture and so far so good. If I were pressed, I would say ‘So far……better than good.’ In fact there is real danger of us becoming smug! We are ahead of schedule by about four days. That is no mean accomplishment because the English take their picture-making at a much more leisurely clip than you Hollywoodians do—and it has been said by my enemies that I am a very slow director. But no longer! However, I mustn’t take all the bows. Spencer Tracy, who carries the picture—he appears in every scene, is so wonderfully accomplished and such a sure actor that we are able to do long, long scenes, five pages in fact, in one take. That is how we manage to get on with it so well….I think we are talking an awful lot about me and my picture….so I will say one thing more. We are rather pleased with the quality of the stuff we are getting, but you will be the judge of that when we have a great big Premeerr [sic] at the Iris on Hollywood Boulevard….After I finish, which according to present computations will be in the early part of August, I hope to take a little trip to Paris, France, and maybe as far as Rome, Italy, and then home sometime in September. I feel sure that I am missing all kinds of delightful lunches and dinners and galas with you. I am even longing to hear Kay Francis tell of her feud with Miriam Hopkins again—or am I going to far? I hope, dear Cole, that you are well and happy, that your work is going on as you wish it to, and that your life—and your pool are full.” In fine condition, with two light paperclip impressions and staple marks to the top left corners. A fantastically insightful letter from the acclaimed director.
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