JERRY WALD - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 09/16/1948 - HFSID 253158
Price: $180.00
JERRY WALD
Jerry Wald types a letter thanking a friend for a telegram.
Typed Letter Signed: "Jerry", 1p, 7¼x10¼. On personal letter
head. No place, 16 September 1948. To Lew. In full: "Thanks for
your telegram. If the first thirty-six years are the toughest, I'm looking
forward to the next thirty-six with great pleasure." Folds not near
signature. Fine condition. Included b/w 3½x3¾ photograph. Fine condition.
Jerry Wald (1911-1962) was the archetypical "boy wonder" of
Hollywood. He was hired by Warner Bros. as a screenwriter in 1933. Among his
many Warner producing assignments were the Bogart pictures All Through the
Night (1942), Action in the North Atlantic (1943) and Treasure of
the Sierra Madre (1947) and the Joan Crawford films Mildred Pierce
(1945) and Humoresque (1946). In 1948, Wald received the Irving
G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He left Warner Bros. for RKO in 1951-1952, then,
from 1953 through 1956, he was Vice President in charge of production at
Columbia Pictures. In 1956, Wald set up his own production unit with 20th
Century-Fox. His Peyton Place was nominated for the 1957 Academy Award
for Best Picture and Sons and Lovers was nominated in 1960. Wald died in
1962 just two months short of his 50th birthday. Two
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