HELEN HAYES - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED CIRCA 1963 - HFSID 280924
Price: $180.00
HELEN HAYES
Oscar-winning actor Helen Hayes wrote a letter this card from Mexico in 1963 to fellow
actor Mary Elizabeth Forbes, writing "This dark year I can't wish you the usual Merry &
Happy - but I do send my enduring affection".
Autographletter signed "Helen Hayes" in blue ink. 1 page, 4¾x3¼, 1 sheet folded, with
colored border. Written in "Mexico" in 1963. In full: "Dearest Mary: This dark year I can't
wish you the usual Merry & Happy - but I do send my enduring af-fection and wish for a New
Year full of grace and good tidings Love".In the year that she wrote this letter, Hayes appeared
in an episode of The Christophers. "Mary" is probably MARY ELIZAEBTH FORBES
(1879-1964), who had a few leading lady roles in 1915 but was relegated to smaller roles and
even bit parts by 1917. She also had 9 appearances on Broadway between 1905 and 1938.
HELEN HAYES (1900-1993, born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington, DC) won the
1931-1932 Academy Award for Best Actress for the title role in The Sin of Madelon
Claudet, her first film. After starring in Vanessa, Her Love Story in 1935 for MGM, Hayes
returned to Broadway and enjoyed the greatest triumph of her stage career in the title role
of Victoria Regina(1935-1938). She earned the sobriquet First Lady of the American
Stage, winning Tonys for Happy Birthday(1947), the first year the award was given, and
for Time Remembered(1958). A frequent TV guest star from the 1950s to the 1980s,
Hayes made occasional films, such as Anastasia (1956) and Airport(1970), winning a Best
Supporting Actress Oscar for the latter. Fine condition.
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