Beschreibung:

ALFRED HITCHCOCK / PATRICIA HITCHCOCK EPHEMERA: a collection of publicity photographs and personal letters written to British actor Peter Halliday from Patricia Hitchcock, 1950s - 1983, and an Order of Service for Alfred Hitchcock's Memorial Service, June 1980; the small collection includes a group of eight publicity photographs, depicting Alfred Hitchcock with his wife (film editor) Alma Reville, daughter Patricia, son-in-law Joseph E. Connell Junr, and grandaughters, CBS photo. by Gabor Rona red stamps on versos, and images of the director on various film sets with Joseph Cotton, Farley Granger, Ingrid Bergman, a sepia toned portrait of Patricia Hitchcock, Bill Doll & Company, Anita Playhouse, New York blue stamp on verso, mostly 25.5cm x 20cm, a group of six letters written by Patricia Hitchcock, from 1950 - 1983, to her close friend, British actor Peter Halliday, five handwritten, and one typed and signed, a few undated in their original California postmarked envelopes, approx. 360 lines on 20pp, two on printed headed notepaper from 1097 Belagio Road, Bel Air and 5227 Avenida Hacienda Tarzan, California, the contents are full of newsy Hollywood snippets, writing of her amusement Peter had seen 'Stage Fright' in German, the shock at the sudden death of Al Jolson, . . . 'I'd seen him the night before at a restaurant', . . . and Alan and Sue Ladd's accounts of 'terribly young soldiers returning from the front (Korea) battered and exhausted', a few casual references to her father, . . . 'Hitch has bought another car. A Chevrolet, we've left it in New York . . . , . . . 'still no work but I hope to be doing something in one of Daddy's shows in February', . . . together with a 10pp. Order of Service, and invitation card for Alfred Hitchcock's Memorial Service, Westminster Cathedral, Tuesday 3 June, 1980, with the LA Times newspaper obituary cutting loosely inserted.