ROBERT "BOB" CUMMINGS - RECEIPT SIGNED 1961 - HFSID 209458

ROBERT CUMMINGS
The Emmy Award-nominated star signs on this receipt for the production of the 1962 film My Geisha
Receipt Signed: "Bob Cummings", 1p, 4¾x6½. No place, 1961 February 27-March 5. Weekly pay slip printed in English and Japanese. Used during the filming of the Paramount film, My Geisha, it lists Cummings' job title as "Cast". In this romantic comedy, in theaters in 1962, Cummings plays the co-star of a production of Madam Butterfly. He falls in love with Shirley MacLaine, an actress posing as a Japanese geisha, who is actually married to the production's unwitting director, played by Yves Montand. Cummings was paid 63,000 Yen per week for his work. 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. Upper blank margin, which has staple holes and 2 file holes, has ¼x¼-inch paper loss at center edge, left blank corner is torn off. Otherwise, fine condition.