Mary Pickford Letters. an Icon's correspondence

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Typed signed letters of Movie actress and producer Mary Pickford. total pages 42. Some letters are 2 pages. Total number of pages includes telegrams sent from Mary or to Mary. a great study of this Hollywood icons life. includes four letters to her friend and confident Mildred Zukor, daughter of producer Afolph Zukor. one letter has Mary claiming she considered destroying the negative of one of her self produced silent features. also included is a signed photo of Adolph Zukor. The 42 pages is a rare unique archive. ...sidenote: If you saw Warren Beattys film "Bugsy," you saw the character of Countess DiFrasso. She was a real person. one of the letters in this auction is Mary's sympathy letter to Bert Taylor, sister of Dorothy Taylor, the countess DiFrasso. 42 is a page count, not letter count. each telegram is counted as a single page. .....letters span from 1915 to the 1970s. the letter in the 1970s is a memo written and signed by Mary's assistant Valerie Sorrelle, on Mary's behalf. There is a 1960s letter written by a secretary, on account of Mary having fallen down some stairs, according to the letter. Somebody had written to Mary with regard to the subject of a film on Mary's life. Such a project was not in the works. The response from Mary's secretary was that Mary was laid up in bed, sleepless nights, and then falling sleep in the morning from nervous exhaustion. many of the letters come with the postmarked envelope. letters include a letter to Lionel Barrymore; a letter to the Governor of California; a handwritten note to Clifton Webb's mother; a signed letter regarding Beverly Hills Christmas decorating; among other pieces. one page is a letter to Harold Lloyd from a third party- included because Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford were both being honored at a banquet, so the letter concerns that. And one page is an early 1980s handwritten response by Buddy Rogers Mary's widower husband, in response to Dale Olson, a publicist who bought some Pickfair items after Mary died. of course more stuff was auctioned much later after buddy died. For an extra 5, I can also include a stock certificate made out to Mary, and endorsed on the back by Mary. The earliest letter in the batch is dated 1915. The 1915 letter is the only piece in the batch which is a response to a fan. I do not place much value in celebrity letters to fans. all the other letters are Mary's personal correspondence regarding business dealings or social correspondence to persons known to her. The photos represent a sampling of what is included. obviously there are more pages: Ebay limits me to twelve photos. ....7/31/17 update: Just added a letter from mary to Debbie Reynolds; also a 1921 letter from a Mary Pickford studios secretary advising a woman on availability of an acting job for her minor child, in future projects with Mary Pickford. 12/23/17 update: just added 1953 letter from treasury department regarding Mary's U.S. Bond sale tour. Also added letter dated Nov 1962 to Olathe Kansas to family friend that took care of buddy's mother before Mrs Rogers died. Feb 1,2018: just added a letter from Mary to Milton Berle