LIZA MINNELLI - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 259096

LIZA MINNELLI
She thanks Joan Crawford for a surprise dinner.
Rare ALS: "Liza", 3p, 5½x7½. No place, no date. To Joan (actress Joan Crawford). In full: "How many many times in the few days since I saw you have I remembered with pleasure and real delight the lovely evening you planned for Mary and me! Everything about it was just perfect beginning with the 'surprise' (and so it was!) And continuing through the scrumptious dinner at Café Brasilia. What a charming place and what superb food: I can taste the hearts of palm and that heavenly sauce still-not to mention the crabmeat salade (sic), duck, delicious vegetables and all those calorie-filled desserts! For all these goodies I thank you - both for the fact and the memory- But most of all, dear friend, I thank you for thinking of it all; for including me; and for giving your time to providing and an evening of 'good times' for Mary and me. I can't close this note without saying how delighted I was to see you looking so well - really radiant (And I don't give all the credit to Aqua -whatever-it-is Skin Lotion!) I am so glad that things are going well with your Pepsi work and that the 'new people' (I'm afraid I'll always think of them that way) seem to appreciate your invaluable contributions. They'd better. With love and gratitude." LIZA MINNELLI, daughter of Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli, won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical (1965, Flora, the Red Menace; 1978, The Act), the 1972-1973 Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Program Variety or Musical (Liza with a "Z") and the 1972 Academy Award for Best Actress (Cabaret). In 1955, JOAN CRAWFORD married Pepsi-Cola Board Chairman Alfred N. Steele; they were married until his death in 1959. Crawford was elected to the Pepsi Board of Directors two days after his fatal heart attack and later became publicity executive. She remained associated with the firm until her death in 1977. Café Brasilia calls itself "an Exquisite Coffee Shop and Restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in the Heart of Studio City" California. Nailhead-size stain at upper left corner of second page lightly shows through at upper blank corner of first page. Fine condition.