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Auction: 284 - Bond, Share & Americana Mailbid & Internet Exclusive
Lot: 734

Colbert, Claudette French-born American actress (1903-96); won an Academy Award for best actress for her role in 1934´s It Happened One Night. Interesting content ALS "Claudette," 2p, 4to, on blue stationery imprinted with the address of her summer home, "Bellerive / St. Peter / Barbados," 11/15, no year [but before 1971]. She writes entertainment lawyer Arnold Weissberger, "I am enclosing a letter from Ted Harris [not present]...The script he sent on to me in Paris is on its way back to him...It´s quite astonishing to be accused of anti-Semitism because I laughingly told you I couldn´t quite see myself as a Jewish ´mama´ - Perhaps Mr. Harris has forgotten that the man I was happily married to for over thirty-two years [UCLA surgeon Dr. Joel Pressman] - whom I loved and respected more than any human being in the world - and shall mourn the rest of my life, was a Jew...Please tell him for me that my primary concern in reading a play is the play itself - the part is secondary...I adore Paul Lukas, and for his sake I sincerely hope I am wrong about the play..." Lower left corners bent, otherwise in fine condition. It is uncertain what play is being discussed here, but Colbert was active on Broadway from the mid-50s through 1963, when she took a 15-year break. Paul Lukas died in 1971, so the letter must be from before that time, but he had been in ill health for years, leading us to conclude that this letter is from the mid-sixties at the latest. Estimate US$ 200-300

Estimate
$200 to $300