LIGHT UP THE SKY PLAY CAST - SHOW BILL SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: SAM LEVENE, CELESTE HOLM - HFSID 301719

LIGHT UP THE SKY PLAY CAST
Cast page signed by Sam Levene and Celeste Holm (who puts in a plug for UNICEF)
Show Bill signed: "Thank you from/UNICEF/Celeste/Holm", "Sam Levene", 20 pages, 5¾x8¾. Playbill for a production of the Moss Hart comedy Light Up the Sky at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D.C. (1975). Ford's Theatre was, of course, the site of the assassination of President Lincoln. In 1943, Rodgers and Hammerstein cast CELESTE HOLM (1917-2012) as soubrette Ado Annie in Oklahoma!; both the production itself and Annie's show-stopping song "I Cain't Say No" affirmed Holm's future stardom. She was cast by her studio, 20th Century-Fox, in the role of the love-starved fashion editor in the prestige feature Gentlemen's Agreement (1947), for which she won an Academy Award. The important role of Bette Davis' understanding friend in another Oscar-winner, All About Eve (1950), has immortalized Holm amongst the film cultists. Always choosy about her roles, she remained active in the 1980s and 1990s whenever a good part struck her fancy. She was a tireless campaigner for the UN Children's Emergency Fund. SAM LEVENE (1905-1980), who was nominated for a 1961 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play (The Devil's Advocate), debuted on the Great White Way in Wall Street in 1927. His Broadway credits include Dinner at Eight (1932), Three Men on a Horse (1935-1937; revival 1969-1970), Light Up the Sky (1948-1949), Guys and Dolls (1950-1953), The Sunshine Boys (1972-1973) and Horowitz and Mrs. Washington (1980, his last stage appearance before his death from a heart attack). In 1936, Levene made his screen debut, reprising his role as superstitious gambler Patsy in the film version of Three Men on a Horse. That same year, he made the first of two appearances as Lieutenant Abrams in Thin Man films (After the Thin Man, 1936; Shadow of the Thin Man, 1941). Levene appeared in over 30 feature films, his last being ...After the Fall in 1979, as well as in made-for-TV movies, TV anthologies (including The United States Steel Hour and Studio One) and the TV series, The Untouchables (1960). Minor tear at top of binding. Otherwise, fine condition.