BIB_ID
381091
Accession number
MA 5453.1
Creator
Hart, Moss, 1904-1961.
Display Date
1947 Mar. 25.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
"Christopher Blake" opened on Broadway on November 30, 1946 and closed March 8, 1947. The play was made into a film released in 1948 as "The Decision of Christopher Blake", based on Moss Hart's play.
Don Hershey was the Stage Manager for "Christopher Blake" on Broadway.
Written on the letterhead of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation / Studios / Beverly Hills, California."
Don Hershey was the Stage Manager for "Christopher Blake" on Broadway.
Written on the letterhead of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation / Studios / Beverly Hills, California."
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and saying that he and Kitty [Carlisle Hart] both drank a silent toast the night the show closed and thought of all of you. I do wish, for all our sakes, that all that effort and headache and heart-ache had been better rewarded;" telling him he will be meeting with Jack Warner and "shall be delighted to see what I can do for you;" adding that "Gentleman's Agreement" is a real 'toughie' and has many problems I never contemplated, so that it looks like I'll be here a great deal longer than I expected to, but it's all in a very good cause;" adding in an autograph postscript, "Just returned from that conference. I put on a big sales talk for you and they are writing you direct. All I ask is ten percent."
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