ONLY WHEN I LAUGH MOVIE CAST - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: NEIL "DOC" SIMON, MARSHA MASON - HFSID 185902

ONLY WHEN I LAUGH MOVIE: NEIL SIMON and MARSHA MASON
Black and white publicity photograph for the film Only When I Laugh.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Elliot/Marsha Mason" and "To Elliot/Neil Simon". B/w, 10x8 overall, image 9¼x6½ (one surface). Captioned at bottom margin. Publicity photo for the film Only When I Laugh, ©1981, Columbia Pictures Industries. MARSHA MASON a stage actress of the 1960s and 1970s, Mason's fame as a film star soared when she received four Oscar nominations in a brief span of years (Cinderella Liberty, 1973; The Goodbye Girl, 1977; Chapter Two, 1979; and Only When I Laugh, 1981). Her husband at the time, playwright Neil Simon, wrote the latter three. Mason has also appeared on television and in the movies Stella (1990) and I Love Trouble (1994). In 1997, Mason became a semi-regular on the popular NBC sitcom Frasier, playing the love interest of Kelsey Grammar's father, John Mahoney. NEIL SIMON the most financially successful playwright in history, Neil Simon began penning comedy material for nightclubs and revues, then signed on as a staff writer for TV comedian Sid Caesar. Simon became skilled in the art of allowing jokes to flow naturally from the situation and the characters, rather than merely inserting gags arbitrarily for quick, cheap laughs. Among his works on Broadway are: The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lost in Yonkers, The Sunshine Boys and Promises, Promises. He has won 4 Tonys, 2 Emmys and a Pulitzer Prize. Fine condition.