AGNES GEORGE DE MILLE - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 03/29/1980 - HFSID 224440

AGNES GEORGE DE MILLE
1980 note to a fan seeking an autograph on "Agnes de Mille Prude" stationery and signed by de Mille
Typed note signed "Agnes George de Mille". 6x7, on de Mille's personalized stationery inscribed with "Agnes de Mille Prude" and her New York City address. March 29, 1980. Addressed to Mr. William W. Stanhope, 7500 Delwood Road NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico. In full: "Dear Mr. Stanhope: You may certainly send your Speak to Me Dance With Me along and I would be delighted to autograph it. Very Sincerely, Agnes de Mille AdM/pf". de Mille married Walter Prude in 1943. de Mille (1905-1993, born in New York City) is an American dancer and Tony-winning choreographer. She won Tony Awards for Best Choreographer for Brigadoon (1947) and Kwamina (1962). In 1943, she choreographed Oklahoma!, a musical that revolutionized the art form by integrating its choreographic numbers with the plot in a way that had not been done before. She choreographed many other musicals, including Carousel (1945), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) and Paint Your Wagon (1951). The daughter of playwright William Churchill de Mille and niece of director Cecil B. de Mille, Agnes spent much of her youth in Hollywood, where she learned to dance before touring the United States and Europe from 1929 to 1940 with mime-dance shows. Her career as a choreographer began in 1929, when she choreographed The Black Crook. She also choreographed ballets, most of them with New York City's Ballet Theatre. Her most important ballet was Rodeo (1942) for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which incorporated rodeo movements like bronco-riding and steer-roping. Lightly toned and creased. Pinholes in punctuation of recipient address and "Very Sincerely,". Page has been folded in half and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.