HARRY BELAFONTE - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 317227
Price: $140.00
HARRY BELAFONTE
The calypso star pens an inscription "to Fuzzie"
Autograph note signed: "To Fuzzie/Harry Belafonte", 4¼x2½. Harold George "Harry"
Belafonte, Jr. (1927-2023), the son of Jamaican immigrants, studied at the Actors Studio, the
drama workshop at the New York School for Social Research and the American Negro
Theater. After appearing on the New York stage and singing in cabarets, he made his film
debut in Bright Road (1953). The following year, Belafonte won a Tony Award for John
Murray Anderson's Almanac and starred in Carmen Jones, the second film in his string
of hits. In 1956, he spearheaded the Calypso music craze with his album Calypso. The
album was number one on the charts for an amazing 31 weeks. Belafonte, who also
became television's first Black producer, won Emmy Awards in 1960 for his TV special,
Tonight With Harry Belafonte, and in 1985 for initiating the all-star We Are the World
video. Creased and toned. Pencil note (unknown hand) on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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