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A W.C. Fields signed and inscribed photograph and autograph letter
30 November 2016, 12:00 EST
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A W.C. Fields signed and inscribed photograph and autograph letter
Comprising an 8 x 10 in gelatin silver print, signed ("W.C. Bill Fields") and inscribed "To my little Pal / Ginger [Michaels] with / love from her / friend," and an autograph letter signed ("Sweet William") in pencil, 1 p, n.d., 4to, on Las Encinas Sanitarium, Pasadena, California, stationery. The letter is written from Las Encinas Sanitarium, where Fields spent the last fourteen months of his life and where he died on Christmas Day, 1946. The letter reads: "I hate Mickey Mouse / Cause? / She arrives too / early in the / morning." Mickey Mouse was Fields' nickname for his assistant Magda Michaels.
Provenance: descended through the family of Magda Michaels.
Provenance: descended through the family of Magda Michaels.


















