RUDY VALLEE - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 11/19/1967 - HFSID 112185

RUDY VALLÉE
Rudy Vallée writes a letter discussing the types of drugs that he likes.
Typed letter signed: "Rudy and Eleanor/Vallée", 1p, 7¼x10½. No place, 1967 November 19. On his personal letter head to Miss Gallagher. Begins: "My Dear Miss Gallagher" In full: " I don't use many drugs, even tho I was brought up in a drug store in which I worked for my father from the age of ten to sixteen! Very simply, the ones that I do occasionally use are: ANACIN/CHLOR TRIMETON MALEATE) REP TABS/SECONAL CAPSULES/DEXEDRINE SHORT AND LONG TWELVE HOUR SPAN. I have found ever since I first began trying to relieve an (sic) headache, that NOTHING, but NOTHING succeeds with ME, like ANACIN!! But in 1952, after an operation of the vocal cords, I came out of the anathestic (sic) with a pain in the right temple! No one could give me the answer for this phenomenon and it persisted for almost THREE WEEKS! But blessed ANACIN gave me relief for almost SEVEN hours!!! I suppose a narcotic would have been equally effective but here was relief with no danger of addiction or side effects! The pain was later diagnosed as a PRESSED PINCHED (hand written above) NERVE due to the head being bent during the entire operation...but ANACIN defeated the pain! When I have been indulging in derivitives (sic) of MILK such as CHEESE, I take a REP TAB (repeating tablet) of CHLOR TRIMETON 8 mg. and not only do I awaken without much or any mucous or catarrhal condition, but if it is my intention to sleep late, the REP TAB CHLOR TRIMETON not only relaxes me AS I PREPARE TO SLEEP, BUT IT RELAXES ME ALL THRU THE NIGHT AND MORNING so that I sleep late into the afternoon!! When we drove across the country and all over the United States doing many night clubs and hotel engagements in my one man show, Mrs. Vallee and I would have a few rum drinks after dinner, usually about nine o'clock, and just before eating, we'd take a SECONAL CAPSULE (the small ones....two, if one doesn't have any effect!) and then sleep with five hundred miles in prospect the next day! I did ALL the driving and when seven o'clock came all too soon, a twelve hour span DEXEDRINE woke me up and kept me alert until maybe late afternoon when a short span capsule would keep me keenly awake until we arrived at the night's stop. That's our story on drugs!" From the mid-1920s to mid-1950s, Rudy Vallée (1901-1986) enjoyed a successful career on radio (where he hosted a popular variety show from 1929), in movies, in Broadway musicals and with a solo nightclub act. The first singer to be called a "crooner", he was known for carrying a small megaphone. He made a fine comeback in the Broadway hit How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (1961). Lightly creased at corners. Fold creases not near signature. Fine condition.