STANLEY KRAMER - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/05/1976 - HFSID 259124
Sale Price $345.00
Reg. $420.00
THE DIRECTOR SENDS GOOD WISHES TO ACTRESS JOAN CRAWFORD, WHO REMEMBERED HIS
BIRTHDAY
STANLEY KRAMER. TLS: "Stanley", 1p, 6¼x8½. No place,
1976 October 5. On sheet imprinted with his name to actress Joan
Crawford, New York, N.Y. Begins: "Dear Joan". In full:
"I wish you happiness and love on my birthday. Thank you so much for
remembering it. Sincerely". The producer and director had celebrated his
63rd birthday on September 29, 1976. 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).
Lightly creased with fold, not at signature. Fine condition.
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