HEPBURN KATHARINE Typed Letter Signed with holograph closing

Sale 2333 - Lot 62

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HEPBURN, KATHARINE. Typed Letter Signed, with holograph closing, to New Republic editor Gilbert A. Harrison, correcting some information she gave him earlier concerning George Bernard Shaw's play, Saint Joan, and mentioning Thornton [Wilder]. With a holograph closing, "Sorry to have led you wrong." 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery; horizontal fold. Np, 9 July 1981

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". . . I did a test for Robert Edm[o]nd Jones as Joan. But it was a sample technicolor experiment. Nothing to do with Thornton--This was around 1935--judging by my haircut . . . .
George Bernard Shaw when contacted by Lawrence Langner about Saint Joan as a theatre project for me said he didn't want a WHOP American to play the part and urged The Millionairess. . . .
". . . I cannot remember talking to Thornton about Joan. And I do remember other talks with him--about dinosaurs when he was playing Mr. Antro[b]us in Westport. . . ."