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Lot 1269

A Katharine Hepburn letter pertaining to Spencer Tracy

10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los Angeles

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A Katharine Hepburn letter pertaining to Spencer Tracy

Autograph Letter Signed ("Kate"), 1 p, 8vo, Beverly Hills, July 17, 1967, to Loring Smith, on "Spencer Tracy" monogrammed stationery, with original autograph transmittal envelope. Actor Loring Smith appeared with Tracy and Hepburn in Pat and Mike (1952) and later was part of the American Shakespeare Festival acting company when Hepburn, a longtime participant in and booster of the festival in her native Connecticut, headlined the 1960 repertory season. Hepburn responds in answer to a sympathy note Smith sent upon the death of Tracy, writing: "We finished the movie [Guess Who's Coming to Dinner] on May 21st and were sort of recovering–when all of a sudden–." She goes on to lament the loss of Tracy, describing him as "unique" and "a good creature." Accompanied by a Playbill for the 1960 American Shakespeare Festival in which both Hepburn and Smith performed.
7.25 x 10.5 in.

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