(ENTERTAINERS) LEIGH VIVIEN Autograph Letter Signed Vivien t

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"I JUST COULD NOT FIND MYSELF SUFFICIENTLY INTERESTED IN THE CHARACTERS" (ENTERTAINERS.) LEIGH, VIVIEN. Autograph Letter Signed, "Vivien," to screenwriter Garson Kanin, declining to perform for him in an unnamed project because she finds the characters uninteresting, explaining that her risk aversion is due to the failure of her recent play [Paul Osborn's La Contessa (1965)], and hoping he would forgive her. 6 pages, 12mo, "Midland Hotel" stationery, onionskin paper, written on rectos of separate sheets; horizontal fold. With the original envelope. Manchester, 7 May 1965

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". . . You know without my telling you how dearly I would love to work with you, & I was just praying that this play would be the one. But dear friend please forgive me when I say I just could not find myself sufficiently interested in the characters. Agatha herself seems so totally without heart--with not enough wit or fun by way of compensation. Oh dear, I am so miserable at having to write this . . . . [A]fter the kind of wretchedness we have just been through with this play, one's judgment is not always the clearest & I just hope . . . that you will . . . have a glorious success with it. . . . Please please write Garson & tell me you forgive me . . . ."