Name: MY FAIR LADY, 1964/FRED ASTAIRE
Brand: AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER
Price: 5500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

An autograph letter, signed, from Fred Astaire to Audrey Hepburn on 1155 San Ysidro Drive headed stationery, dated Tuesday, circa December, 1964, the two page letter in blue ballpoint pen praising her performance in My Fair Lady, Astaire exclaims I cannot contain myself. You are so perfect in My Fair Lady! You bring that certain plus to it that one subconsciously hopes for when a big Broadway show comes to the screen. That combination of comedy and pathos could only be brought forth by Audrey and "That Face," confessing ...Little tears welled up in my eyes many times. I saw the stage play four times. Twice in N.Y. once in California & once in Australia. Loved it each time but I never "teared up" before. Astaire goes on to applaud the production in general It's indeed a perfectly wonderful movie and I sat entranced like all the Sat. matinee audience did. Hermes [Pan] and I went together. I thought he did an excellent job [Pan was choreographer for My Fair Lady and all nine 1930s Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies] Rex was as ever - great great. I thought all the casting was just right. Old Jack Warner deserves credit for picking the right director and technicians who could bring out the taste that was so needed for this movie, finishing with a private joke Hooray! Hooray! It seems like you have like fractured me again, signed Best love you and Mel - Yours - Fred, with an unused envelope inscribed in Hepburn's hand in blue ballpoint pen letter from Fred Astaire
7 ¾ x 5 ⅞ in. (19.7 x 14.7 cm.)
Quantity: 2

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