JUNE HAVOC - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 03/18/1983 - HFSID 160012

JUNE HAVOC
June Havoc sends a typed letter of regret not begin able to attend a fundraiser since she will be busy rehearsing for her one woman show.
Typed letter signed: "June Havoc", 1p, 8½x8. Wilton, C.T., 1983 March 18. On personal letterhead to Anne Edwards, New Milford, Connecticut. In full: "Your invitation is almost irresistible: restoration and theatre, together or separately, are guaranteed my interest. However, I must decline A NIGHT OF CONNECTICUT STARS-having just returned from an edifying 'out-of-town try-out' of my one-woman show, I find that plans have progressed, and I shall be in rehearsal in June; and when I am in rehearsal it is so time and energy consuming that I do nothing else. But oh, I do so hope June 11 is a smashing success, and that Connecticut Stage Company prospers, and may I say that I admire your work, and hope that we may someday meet. Most sincerely," The sister of celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, June Havoc (1913-2010) was earning $1500 a week as a vaudeville headliner by age five. She made her Broadway debut in 1936, and four years later scored a big success in the 1940 production of Pal Joey. Moving onto Hollywood, over the next decade Havoc played leads and second leads on many films. Holding a record for marathon dancing in 1933, Havoc wrote and directed the autobiographical Broadway play Marathon 33 (1963). One horizontal fold not affecting signature. Fine condition.