ZOE AKINS - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 67358
Sale Price $135.00
Reg. $160.00
ZOE AKINS
Signing with her married name on stationery of her Pulitzer
Prize-winning play, The Old Maid
Signature: "Zoe Akins Rumbold", 8½x11. Written perpendicular
to a printed letterhead touting her Pulitzer-Prize winning play, The Old
Maid (1935). Playwright and screenwriter Zoe Akins (1886-1958) wrote
her first play in 1914, but didn't earn acclaim until The Greeks Had a Word
for It (1930). (The play, re-written in 1953 as How to Marry a
Millionaire, would bring stardom to Marilyn Monroe.) Akins wrote three
screenplays which earned Oscar nominations for their stars: Ruth Chatterton in
Sarah and Son (1930), Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (1933)
and Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). The Old Maid, which won
the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1935, was adapted from a novel by Edith
Wharton. It would become a film starring Bette Davis in 1939. In 1932, Akins
married British costume and set designer Hugo Rumbold, who died shortly
thereafter. Multiple mailing folds. Lightly toned. Corners creased. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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