April 12, 2024
Hollywood Agent SWIFTY LAZAR Memoir wi Notecard to BILLY WILDER SIGNED by LAZAR
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[FILM BOOKS]. LAZAR, IRVING (WILDER, BILLY). Swifty. My Life and Good Times by Swifty Lazar. Written in Collaboration with Annette Tapert . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First Edition. From the library of the great film director Billy Wilder, with a typed notecard in the original envelope signed by the great Hollywood agent Swifty Lazar to Mr. Wilder and his wife. The card reads: “Dear Audrey and Billy, This is a marvelous book about our life in Hollywood. We send you our love and every good wish for the New Year.” and is signed, “Love, Irving & Mary.” The notecard measures 4 7/8” x 3 1/2” and, with its envelope addressed to the Wilders, is in fine condition. Mr. Wilder is mentioned throughout the text and there is a lovely black & white photo in the book of the Wilders at a restaurant with Swifty and film director Charles Vidor and his wife Doris. Illustrated. A fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket. The thoroughly engaging memoirs of Irving Paul Lazar (known as ‘Swifty’), a true Hollywood original, an astute and irascible agent and raconteur, whose clients and friends included such notables as Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Moss Hart, Irwin Shaw, Truman Capote, Larry McMurtry, Neil Simon, Edna Ferber, Richard Nixon, Ira Gershwin, and many more. His annual Oscar parties are legendary and are generously covered in the book. Billy
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