JOAN FONTAINE - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 10/22/1947 CO-SIGNED BY: GERALDINE BROOKS - HFSID 19253
Price: $140.00
JOAN FONTAINE and GERALDINE BROOKS
Album leaf signed by Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontaine and by Tony
and Emmy-nominated actress Geraldine Brooks
Autograph note signed: "To Don/Joan Fontaine" and, on verso,
"To Don -/Sincerely -/Geraldine Brooks", both in blue ink. Unknown hand
pens the date: "10/22/47". 6x4½, with rounded right corners. Stage,
screen and television actress FONTAINE (1917-2013), born Joan de
Beavoir de Havilland in Tokyo, started in film in 1935, but her career took off
in the 1940s, when she starred in two of Alfred Hitchcock's films:
Rebecca (for which she received an Oscar nomination) and
Suspicion (for which she received the Best Actress Academy Award in
1941). The younger sister of actress Olivia deHavilland, they were
the first sisters to win Oscars and the first to be nominated for
Academy Awards in the same year (1941). When Joan won the coveted statuette
in 1941, the sisters, who were known for their jealous feuds, became permanently
estranged. Having once been quoted, "I married first, won the Oscar before
Olivia did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid
because I beat her to it!" Fontaine's prediction came to pass when she died of
natural causes in 2013, at the age of 96. If her movies
had been any better, then BROOKS (1925-1977), born Geraldine
Stroock, may have lived up to her hype at Warner Brothers as the "new Hepburn".
A pretty brunette with an intense screen presence, she did manage to earn a
Tony nomination for her performance in Brightower (1970) and an
Emmy nomination for her performance on a 1961 episode of Bus Stop.
But she was generally given subpar movies when she made the jump to the
silver screen from the stage in 1947, and she focused almost exclusively on TV
after 1950. She had almost 90 movies and TV shows to her credit between 1947 and
1976, with recurring roles as Angela Dumpling on The Dumplings (1976).
Brooks also became a nature photographer and published a book of her bird
photographs, Swan Watch, in 1975. Lightly toned, stained and creased.
Binding holes at left edge. Otherwise in fine
condition.
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