Film Directors And Writers A collection of approximately 27 autograph letters, signed, and 29 typescript letters, signed, the letters addressed to Maurice Bessy ( Cher Maurice, Dear Maurice, Dear Mr. Bessy ), a number on headed stationery including Universal City Studios Inc, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures, Yale University, Spoleto Cinema and assorted personalised stationery, various dates circa August, 1947 - December, 1978, many n.d., altogether approx. 33 letters in French, the remainder in English, a few in Italian Several letters refer to the Cannes Film Festival, including an autograph note signed (n.d.) and a typescript letter signed, from Steven Spielberg the former telling him ..I'm running to the cutting room or else I'd see you here at the Hotel...See you at Cannes... , the latter on Universal City Studios, Inc. headed stationery, 7th December, 1974 telling him ..We are very busy at work on the final cutting, scoring, and dubbing on "JAWS"...Certainly "JAWS" can be considered for the next Cannes Film Festival...let me thank you for selecting "THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS" in the past year's festival.. , both signed Steven Spielberg ; another from Stanley Kubrick on his personalised stationery, 27th January, 1976, thanking Bessy for an invitation ...to submit "Barry Lyndon" to the Cannes Film Festival...I'm afraid to have to tell you that Warner Bros. is not in favour of submitting the film, and in any event...I would not be able to personally attend... , signed Stanley Kubrick ; other subjects writing on a similar theme include: Elia Kazan, William Wyler, Franz Capra, Preston Sturges (5), Joseph Losey, Leni Riefenstahl Federico Fellini (5), Roberto Rosellini and Sergio Leone Several letters refer to interviews and research for Cinemonde Magazine, subjects include: Ernst Lubitsch Rouben Mamoulian, Fritz Lang Joseph Losey, J.A. Bardem and Serge Joutkevitch; and six 7-9pp. questionaires Qui Etes-Vous... , majority answered in French, majority in subject's handwriting or annotated typescript, subjects include: Karel Reisz (English responses); Luchino Visconti Diego Fabbri, Erich Segal, Miguel Angel Asturias and Constantin Simonov; other artists on different subjects include: Peter Bogdanovich, Lawrence Durrell, Charles Lederer (2), Coral Browne and Anthony Burges; also approximately 20 Christmas and greetings cards, the majority with printed signatures including: Carole Landis, Joan Bennett, Anita Louise and Joan Fontaine, one signed by William Randolph Hearst; and a quantity of correspondence associated with French actor and playwright Sacha Guitry; an autograph letter signed from George Bernard Shaw to Louis Delluc, Ayot St.Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 19th February 1912 telling him: ..There are no recent portraits of me. Anyone in Europe, except a Frenchman, would know that a man who has posed for Rodin could never again condescend to a mere mortal painter... 1p. framed; and an autograph note signed from Jean Cocteau concerning Delluc, on a fragment of paper -- 6x7½in. (15.3x19.2cm.) framed (a lot)
Film Directors And Writers A collection of approximately 27 autograph letters, signed, and 29 typescript letters, signed, the letters addressed to Maurice Bessy ( Cher Maurice, Dear Maurice, Dear Mr. Bessy ), a number on headed stationery including Universal City Studios Inc, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Columbia Pictures, Yale University, Spoleto Cinema and assorted personalised stationery, various dates circa August, 1947 - December, 1978, many n.d., altogether approx. 33 letters in French, the remainder in English, a few in Italian Several letters refer to the Cannes Film Festival, including an autograph note signed (n.d.) and a typescript letter signed, from Steven Spielberg the former telling him ..I'm running to the cutting room or else I'd see you here at the Hotel...See you at Cannes... , the latter on Universal City Studios, Inc. headed stationery, 7th December, 1974 telling him ..We are very busy at work on the final cutting, scoring, and dubbing on "JAWS"...Certainly "JAWS" can be considered for the next Cannes Film Festival...let me thank you for selecting "THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS" in the past year's festival.. , both signed Steven Spielberg ; another from Stanley Kubrick on his personalised stationery, 27th January, 1976, thanking Bessy for an invitation ...to submit "Barry Lyndon" to the Cannes Film Festival...I'm afraid to have to tell you that Warner Bros. is not in favour of submitting the film, and in any event...I would not be able to personally attend... , signed Stanley Kubrick ; other subjects writing on a similar theme include: Elia Kazan, William Wyler, Franz Capra, Preston Sturges (5), Joseph Losey, Leni Riefenstahl Federico Fellini (5), Roberto Rosellini and Sergio Leone Several letters refer to interviews and research for Cinemonde Magazine, subjects include: Ernst Lubitsch Rouben Mamoulian, Fritz Lang Joseph Losey, J.A. Bardem and Serge Joutkevitch; and six 7-9pp. questionaires Qui Etes-Vous... , majority answered in French, majority in subject's handwriting or annotated typescript, subjects include: Karel Reisz (English responses); Luchino Visconti Diego Fabbri, Erich Segal, Miguel Angel Asturias and Constantin Simonov; other artists on different subjects include: Peter Bogdanovich, Lawrence Durrell, Charles Lederer (2), Coral Browne and Anthony Burges; also approximately 20 Christmas and greetings cards, the majority with printed signatures including: Carole Landis, Joan Bennett, Anita Louise and Joan Fontaine, one signed by William Randolph Hearst; and a quantity of correspondence associated with French actor and playwright Sacha Guitry; an autograph letter signed from George Bernard Shaw to Louis Delluc, Ayot St.Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts, 19th February 1912 telling him: ..There are no recent portraits of me. Anyone in Europe, except a Frenchman, would know that a man who has posed for Rodin could never again condescend to a mere mortal painter... 1p. framed; and an autograph note signed from Jean Cocteau concerning Delluc, on a fragment of paper -- 6x7½in. (15.3x19.2cm.) framed (a lot)
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