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Lot 30

A large archive of Maureen O'Hara contracts and correspondence

29 November 2016, 12:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$750 inc. premium

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A large archive of Maureen O'Hara contracts and correspondence

Comprising approximately 500 pp of paperwork, c.1946-1992, mainly television contracts and business correspondence; also call sheets, script pages, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, fan mail, telegrams, most typed, many handwritten. Among the notable materials in this large lot are a letter from producer Charles Schnee, signed ("Charlie") on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stationery, July 27, 1956, in which he writes, "I think you are the most perfect to play Spig's wife," referring to her character in John Ford's The Wings of Eagles (1957); 12 pp of newspaper clippings re: Miracle on 34th Street sent to O'Hara by Twentieth Century-Fox on their stationery; a letter from producer Fred Coe thanking her for appearing in his television adaptation of Spellbound (1962); two pages of proof sheets of portrait photographs of O'Hara's daughter Bronwyn, 1960s; Twentieth Century-Fox call sheet from Immortal Sergeant (1943), October 8, 1942; a letter from director Delmer Daves, dated January 15, 1964; O'Hara's polite rejection letters to various offers to write her memoirs; and much more.
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