MARY MARTIN Original Letter To JOAN CRAWFORD Signed

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1, One page single sided, signed, handwritten letter by the late MARY MARTIN to the late Joan Crawford. 6.5 x 8.5, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Halliday letterhead, with original envelope hand addressed to Joan Crawford with British PO stamp dated 1966. In full: " Wonderous - Precious - Dearest Joan - Even flowers are more gloriously beautiful that come from you! Even lights are brighter - our hearts beat faster - Thank you! Bless you! We two love you so very, very much - and always - Mary & Richard". Written and signed entirely by the late Mary Martin in blue ink. In fine condition with some edge and corner wear, a fold from an envelope, and two rust paperclip stains. Comes with the original envelope hand addressed to Joan Crawford."Broadway stardom came with her support role in the musical "Leave It to Me" win she stopped the show with her mock striptease rendering of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" while posing on top of a large cabin trunk at a Siberian railway station. Paramount saw her in this and immediately signed her up for films. In 1982, Mary, friend and manager Ben Washer, actress Janet Gaynor and Gaynor's husband, Paul Gregory, were riding in a taxi cab when a drunk driver named Bob Cato sped through a red light and smashed into their vehicle at the corner of Franklin and California Streets. The four were on their way to dinner in downtown San Francisco. Mary and Paul Gregory suffered multiple injuries but recovered. Washer was killed. Ms. Gaynor subsequently died in 1984 from complications of her injuries. Introduced the song "Speak Low" in her Broadway hit "One Touch of Venus." Made her final appearance on the London stage in the 1980 Royal Variety Performance when she performed an engaging version of "Honeybun" from one of her biggest musicals "South Pacific." Won a Peabody Award for her work in the television film Valentine (1979) (TV) in 1979. The play "Kind Sir", in which Ms. Martin starred with Charles Boyer on Broadway, was later made into the Cary Grant-Ingrid Bergman movie Indiscreet (1958). One of the few stars that legendary costume designer Edith Head disliked, or at least disliked working with. (The others were Paulette Goddard, Hedy Lamarr and Claudette Colbert). Won four Tony Awards: in 1948, a Special Award for the touring production of "Annie Get Your Gun," cited for "spreading theatre to the country while the original performs in New York;" and three Best Actress (Musical) awards: in 1950, for "South Pacific;" in 1955, for "Peter Pan," a part she recreated in several television versions; and, in 1960, for "The Sound of Music." She was also nominated as Best Actress (Musical) in 1967 for "I Do! I Do!" She lived in an apartment building called "Highland Towers" for a while in the late 1930s near the corner of Highland and Franklin Avenues in Hollywood, California. She would walk the 4 blocks to work as a singer at the "Cinegrill", a nightclub in the Roosevelt Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard and walk back home again in the evenings. Both buildings, including the nightclub remain today. Featured in a song by Canadian indie band The New Pornographers, which song creates a fictional TV program, "The Martin Martin Show," and then makes surreal references to it. Martin in fact never had a TV show called "The Mary Martin Show, although she did host a senior citizens' talk show for a few years in the 1980s." Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 610-611. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. Please check out my other items for RARE, authentic and valuable memorabilia!!!!!! Constantly adding new items!!!!!!! read more

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