DORE SCHARY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 05/08/1979 - HFSID 31655
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DORE SCHARY
One year before his death, the playwright, screenwriter and producer thanks friends and
reflects on illness
Autograph Letter Signed: "Dore", 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1979 May 8. To Claire and Charles
Russhon. At lower left of form letter to friends. In full: "I adored your card - that little man
seemed so upset - so I had to get better. Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness. Best." The
form letter, in full: "My Dear, Darling, Thoughtful Friends - During dark days one gets a true
accounting from G-d, one's family, and one's friends. As you know, G-d can be reached without a
note or a phone call. He is available for words of thanks or even a thought of thanks and certainly
I must have made a nuisance of myself to Him during these sick days. I see my family and their
hugs and kisses tell me everything I need to know. I in turn am able to tell them how much they
mean to me. To you, my friends, I can express all my gratitude and love in this fashion -- I thank
you for your outpouring of affection expressed in cards, letters, flowers, phone calls, donations to
charities, fruit, candies, wires and books. In all candor, I cannot answer the hundreds of love
messages from you dear ones who have filed your prayers in various ways so I must take this way to
tender you my thanks, my love, my appreciation. I'll be home by the time you get this and after a
few short weeks I'll probably resume a working schedule that the doctors will approve of. Doctors
have this quaint habit of not only getting you well but insisting on trying to keep you that way. So
G-d, family, nurses, doctors, friends, I will be getting ready for whatever chores I can manage in
the future. My thanks to all of you along with -- My love and devotion." Playwright, screenwriter
and producer DORE SCHARY (1905-1980) earned five Oscar nominations, winning one
Academy Award: Boys Town, Best Story (1938). He also received three Tony nominations,
also including one win: Sunrise at Campobello, Best Play (1958). Schary both wrote and
produced the stage and screen versions of the latter. A strong civil libertarian, he was national
chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League (1963-1969). Schary died on July 7,
1980. CHARLES RUSSHON was a U.S. Air Force officer who served as liaison in five of the
James Bond films, appearing briefly in Thunderball. In the film, Goldfinger, a sign "Welcome
General Russhon" is posted at Fort Knox. Fine condition.
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