?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
ODETS, CLIFFORD. Small archive of 13 items Signed, "Clifford" or in full, to editor William Kozlenko, including 6 Autograph Letters, 7 Typed Letters, and a typescript, unsigned, with an 11-line holograph emendation. The letters, mostly personal, some mentioning film or literary projects. Together 16 pages, 4to or smaller, three on personal stationery, one written in blank space below telegram; some with moderate edge chipping, folds. Two with the original envelope. The typescript, a one-act play entitled The Little Parade, with the closing lines of dialogue written in holograph on page 6, in pencil. 6 pages. 4to, paper folder; 3 punch holes in left margin. Vp, 1934-50
6 September 1936: "Just a note to find out how you are and what is growing in your garden these days. . . . And to let you know that if you read anything about me in the papers, it isn't true. Except that I go around with Luise Rainer; that's true, and good and noble. And that I'm writing a new play is true, but when it will be done I don't know. . . ." 10 July 1940: ". . . I am finishing the script of 'Night Music' and think it is going to make an amusing and entertaining picture. However, it has not made me change my mind about anything I have said before about the movies. I have a new phrase for the usual Hollywood producer--I call him 'the autocrat of the peanuts,' or if you like, 'the keeper of the cookies.'" 9 June no year: ". . . Work on the picture going well albeit crawling. The more they crawl the more I earn, but too the more I yearn to be out of here. But it is not as bad as previous visits--this time there are no marital or physical pains. It is the superficiality that gets one down, not hunger, not cold or heat, JUST THE UNBELIEVABLE SUPERFICIALITY! Prepare my cell!"
