SOPHIE TUCKER - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/05/1965 - HFSID 320451
Price: $240.00
SOPHIE TUCKER
Tucker writes a letter to American Cross President and CEO Basil
O'Connor, thanking him for donating to her classroom project in Israel
Autograph letter signed "Sophie/Tucker" in blue ink. 1 page,
7¼x10½, on personal letter head. New York City, October 5, 1965. To "Dear
Basil O'Connor", In full: "Thank you so very much for your
generous check and kindess in helping me with my classroom in Israel. Bless you
and thanks again. Yours." After immigrating from Russia as an infant,
SOPHIE TUCKER(1884-1966, born Sonia Kalish in Russia), began singing in
her father's kosher restaurant in Hartford, Connecticut. Moving to New York, she
established herself as a popular star of vaudeville and Broadway, appearing
with the Ziegfeld Follies in 1909. In 1911, she recorded Some of These
Days, which became her signature song and the title of her 1945
autobiography. Other songs made famous by Tucker included Red-Hot
Mama (in 1928, the Palace Theater in New York billed her as "The Last
of the Red-Hot Mamas", a slogan that became synonymous with the bawdy
singer-entertainer). Another song, My Yiddische Mama, became all the
more popular among European Jewry after it was banned by Hitler. Tucker, who
made her film debut in Honky Talk (1929), made numerous film appearances
in the 1950s and 1960s, and her TV appearances include several visits to the
Ed Sullivan Show. Although Tucker tried all modes of entertainment,
she preferred live cabaret audiences. BASIL O'CONNOR served as
National Chairman and President and CEO of the American Red Cross from
1944-1949. O'Connor, who had established a law practice in Boston, became a
partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the law firm of Roosevelt &
O'Connor in 1925. In 1932, when FDR was elected President, he asked O'Connor
to join his administration, but O'Connor declined to continue to serve in his
private practice and with the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. As head
of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, O'Connor raised millions
of dollars through his "March of Dimes" and other fund-raising efforts.
He was at the helm of the organization when Jonas Salk introduced the polio
vaccine credited with conquering the disease. O'Connor, who was called "Doc" by
FDR, was one of the executors of the President's will. Normal mailing
folds. Binding holes at top edge. Fine condition.
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