KATHRYN GRANT CROSBY - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/31/1977 - HFSID 322081

KATHRYN CROSBY
She writes to Don and Ginny Clark, thanking them for coming to her performance
Typed letter signed: "Kathryn" in blue ink, 1p, 7¼x10½. No place, 1977 August 31. On monogrammed stationery to Mr. and Mrs. Don Clark, Roswell, Georgia. In full: "I'm so glad you came to the play. I think it was dear of you to write to me, and I can't wait to come back to Atlanta for a longer time. Perhaps we'll have to chat and get to know each other.  It was very kind of you to offer to show me some sights. There are a lot of things I would like to see the second time around. Best wishes,". Pencil note (unknown hand) at lower margin: "Did you love Bing Crosby's wife being impressed by minks!" Written the two months before Crosby's husband, crooner Bing Crosby, died (October 14, 1977). A film starlet of the 1950s (The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, 1957; Anatomy of a Murder, 1959), Kathryn Grant Crosby (1933-2024) married film and music idol Bing Crosby in 1957, devoting much of her time to their family and his career until the crooner's death in 1977. In the 1990s she resumed a stage career, returning in a revival of State Fair (1996) to a Broadway stage she first shared with Bing in 1976 (Bing Crosby on Broadway). In addition to stage tours of the U.S., Crosby has performed on the Russian stage in Chekhov's The Seagull and in Hello, Dolly, learning her lines phonetically. RADIE HARRIS (1904-2001) was a long-time entertainment journalist for the "Hollywood Reporter". She wrote her "Broadway Ballyhoo" column from 1940 to the 1990s. Harris, who was also the talent coordinator for the 1943 film, Stage Door Canteen, received a special citation of merit from the Publicists Guild of America in 1982. Normal mailing folds. Otherwise, fine condition.