HARRY RICHMAN - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/21/1954 - HFSID 282427
Sale Price $245.00
Reg. $300.00
HARRY RICHMAN
AFTRA membership signed by entertainer Harry Richman in 1954
Document signed "Harry Richman" in blue ink. Blue ink
notations in unknown hand. 2 pages, 6x8½, 1 sheet, front and verso, with 6¼x3¼
initiation fee receipt carbon copy stapled at top edge. Sept. 21, 1954.
Membership form for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Richman (1895-1972, born Harold Reichman in Cincinatti, Ohio) was a
multi-talented vaudevillian and performer. He had a few movie appearances,
including in 1930's Puttin' on the Ritz, featuring the Irving Berlin
song. However, most of Richman's experience was on the stage. He began as a
piano accompanist for stars like Mae West and Nora Bayes, but was a singer,
dancer, comedian, songwriter, and bandleader in his own right. Richman had a
total of 10 Broadway appearances between 1920 and 1935, most of them revues and
including George White's Scandals (1928-1929) and Ziegfield
Follies of 1931 (1931). Richman was also an amateur aviator and, in
1936, sponsored a flight between New York and London. He chose Dick Merrill,
chief pilot of Eastern Airlines, to pilot the plane, a single engine Vultee VI
called Lady Peace. Their journey began at Floyd Bennett field in
Brooklyn, New York on Sept. 2nd. They were forced to land at Llwyncelyn,
Carmarthenshine, Wales the next day. The return flight departed from Southport,
England and ended in a crash-landing at Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada.
The flight was successful and Merrill and Richman made the first roundtrip
nonstop crossing of the North Atlantic. Lightly toned and creased. Form has
light tear at top edge and was folded twice and unfolded.Receipt has carbon copy
marks. Otherwise in fine condition.
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