MARK HELLINGER - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1939 - HFSID 23235
Price: $160.00
MARK HELLINGER
Handwritten note on a postcard he has also addressed
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Good Luck/Howard/Mark Hellinger",
5½x3¼ postcard. Addressed in unknown hand on verso to Howard Metzger, Greentown,
Ohio, postmarked Burbank, California, November 9, 1939. Mark Hellinger
(1903-1947) was a theatre critic for several New York newspapers, beginning in
1923. Eventually syndicated in 174 newspapers, he substituted his own short
stories for commentary in some of his columns. A friend to entertainment figures
like Walter Winchell, Texas Guinan and Flo Ziegfeld, he was also friendly with
mob figures like Dutch Schulz and Legs Diamond. The latter proved useful when he
began to produce - and in some cases write - noir films, beginning with Jimmy
Cagney's The Roaring Twenties (1939). Other Hellinger productions
included High Sierra and The Naked City. (The latter, released
after Hellinger's death, was also narrated by him.) He won the Mystery Writers'
Edgar for best film, The Killers, in 1947. Hellinger died young of a
congenital heart condition. Ink and pencil notes (unknown hand) on verso.
Lightly creased. Slightly worn. Slightly soiled. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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