JERRY WALD - TYPED LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 278439
Price: $180.00
JERRY WALD
Jerry Wald types a letter thanking a friend for a pleasant
item.
Typed Letter Signed: "Jerry Wald", 1p, 8½x11. Warner Bros.
Pictures, Burbank, California, Saturday. To Jimmy. In full: "It's
getting to be a habit...but a pleasant...thanking for a nice break...your item on
Monday, was most pleasant on my eyes. Again my thnks." 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. Lightly creased at upper left
blank edge. Folds not near signature. Overall, fine condition.
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