STANLEY KRAMER - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 287929
Price: $80.00
STANLEY KRAMER
Hollywood director and producer signs a 5x3 card
Signature: "Stanley Kramer", 5x3 white card. Accompanied by
two B/w photographs of the director. In sleeve affixed to light card stock,
8½x11 overall (four surfaces). One of Hollywood's best known independent
producers from the late 1940s through the end of the 1960s, Stanley Earl
Kramer (1913-2001) was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director
for The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). He also won a Golden Globe
for Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961, the year he was presented with the
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. Also nominated for several Golden
Globes (and the winner of a Special Achievement Award at the 1960
Golden Globes for Inherit the Wind), Kramer began his career as a
production assistant (1933-1940). He directed his first film, Not as a
Stranger, in 1955, and went on to direct such features as The Defiant
Ones (1958*), On the Beach (1959*), Inherit the Wind (1960*),
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961*), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
(1963*), Ship of Fools (1965*), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
(1967*), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969*), The Domino
Principle (1977*) and The Runner Stumbles (1979). He also directed
and produced several made-for-TV movies in the Judgment series (1974,
1975). Kramer, who began producing in 1942 (The Moon and Sixpence,
as associate producer), also produced Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Death
of a Salesman (1951), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1953),
The Caine Mutiny (1954) and R.P.M. (1970) as well as the films
marked with an asterisk above. Kramer also hosted his made-for-TV films,
which featured the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the court martials of
General Yamashita and Lieutenant William Calley, and he appeared as a guest
on several TV series, including Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan
Show) in 1954 and 1955, This is Your Life (1958, 1971), What's My
Line? (1960) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971). Fine
condition.
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