ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 06/16/1941 - HFSID 217178

ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS
The actor thanks a correspondent for "your kind remembrance on my birth day" and sends his own birthday wishes.
Autograph Letter Signed: "Robert Cummings", 1½p, 5x7¾, front and verso. No place, 1941 June 16. To "Dear George". In full: "Thanks a million for your kind remembrance on my birth day. I know you must be a very busy person and it was very unselfish of you to pause amid your own problems to send me a greeting. May your own birth day be a happy one, and may I take this time to wish you prosperity, happiness and Success. Your Friend". Cummings had celebrated his 33rd birthday on June 10, 1941. In 1941, the actor appeared in four films: Free and Easy, The Devil and Miss Jones, Moon Over Miami and It Started with Eve. Known primarily as a comic actor in films from the early 1930s, Robert "Bob" Cummings (1910-1990), born Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings, could handle meaty dramatic roles when they were offered (King's Row, 1942; Dial M for Murder, 1954). His frequent TV work included the hit series, The Bob Cummings Show, which also known as Love That Bob (1955-1959), for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. Cummings was also nominated for an Emmy for his role as Bob S. Beanblossom in My Hero, and he won an Emmy Award for an appearance in "Twelve Angry Men", an episode of the TV anthology series, Studio One. Lightly creased with folds, not at signature. Minor stains on first page and on integral leaf (not at writing). Otherwise, fine condition.