2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Autograph Note Signed ("Kate," "Kate Hepburn"), 6 pp recto and verso, 4to and 8vo, no dates, to Joseph L. Mankiewicz, on various stationeries (one monogrammed). Joe Mankiewicz was instrumental in the life and career of Katharine Hepburn for many reasons, but he is best remembered for one: he introduced her to Spencer Tracy. Mankiewicz was the producer of the first film they made together, Woman of the Year (1942), but he had also worked with Hepburn as producer on The Philadelphia Story (1940) and would work with her later again as director on Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Hepburn clearly admired Mankiewizc, as she writes (likely in later years after re-viewing a film they made together): "Well we were quite brilliant--were we not--I don't think we ever quite appreciated ourselves. You were lovely, too." She also writes Mankiewicz a cute poem and a lovely sympathy letter after the death of his father. Largest: 7 x 10.5 in.
2 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Autograph Note Signed ("Kate," "Kate Hepburn"), 6 pp recto and verso, 4to and 8vo, no dates, to Joseph L. Mankiewicz, on various stationeries (one monogrammed). Joe Mankiewicz was instrumental in the life and career of Katharine Hepburn for many reasons, but he is best remembered for one: he introduced her to Spencer Tracy. Mankiewicz was the producer of the first film they made together, Woman of the Year (1942), but he had also worked with Hepburn as producer on The Philadelphia Story (1940) and would work with her later again as director on Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Hepburn clearly admired Mankiewizc, as she writes (likely in later years after re-viewing a film they made together): "Well we were quite brilliant--were we not--I don't think we ever quite appreciated ourselves. You were lovely, too." She also writes Mankiewicz a cute poem and a lovely sympathy letter after the death of his father. Largest: 7 x 10.5 in.
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