GRENFELL
(Joyce, 1910-1979, Comedy Actress)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Willibrandt
telling her that she is "so interested in this question of Christian names. I suppose it is silly to have names & not use them but ... I think the use should be reserved as a sort of pleasure for close friends ... I don't in fact really like to hear strangers addressing each other by their first names ... I realise this is just a personal view... no one, apparently, has a surname in film studios! Everyone is Bill, Alf, May, Gladys and Bert. Its all right & I suppose friendly. But it also lacks reticence and that olde worlde quality still has value to me ..." continuing that she still believes in privacy but that fame comes with its own problems, "It is a fascinating subject & I'm glad you wrote ... its been in my mind quite a lot. So many children write in to me as 'dear Joyce' and I do wish they wouldn't ... that respect is a gracious quality fast drifting out of sight ...", 4 sides 4to., London, 21st January
Item Date:
1951
Stock No:
29966
£125
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GRENFELL
(Joyce, 1910-1979, Comedy Actress)
Typed Letter Signed to Louis B. Frewer, Secretary of the Oxford Playhouse Guild,
saying "I should love to come down ... but what on earth would you like me to talk about ?", suggesting "the happy accidents that got me on the stage", a subject "that allows plenty of digression into ... medium, audiences, and my job in general", she wants no fee apart from expenses, 1 side 8vo., 149 Kings Road, Chelsea, 27th March
Item Date:
1953
Stock No:
52094
£30
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GRENFELL
(Joyce, 1910-1979, Comedy Actress)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Kit Stewart
on an Air Letter form, saying that she hasn’t “written to say how touched & pleased I was by that lovely first night cable. I loved getting it... It was a wonderful 8 weeks. Smashing notices, audience’s warmth & kindness. Now for some TV and then home in the New Year. I don’t quite know when. It’s been a lovely experience & has made me understand & love America far more. I used to be faintly resentful in some ways even though I am ½v½. But there is such a sense of loving kindness & real neighbourliness & love here that I’m won over. We only see the tough materialistic touristy side - that exists too,, so does Smash Broadway, cigars, guns & toughness. But these are surface stuff like Edgware Road. The core is good...”, 1 side folio, with autograph address on the verso, Lamelton Hotel, West 55 St, New York City, postmarked 3rd December
Item Date:
1955
Stock No:
41771
£125
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GRIMSTON
(Dorothy, Actress, daughter of Dame Madge Kendal)
Signed Portrait Postcard Photo,
signed and inscribed across the foot of the image, showing her three quarter length, full face, in a white dress and a very long feather boa, published by J. Beagles & Co., 5½" x 3½", no place, no date, circa
second half of signature rather faint against the dark background
Item Date:
1906
Stock No:
55310
£35
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GROSSMITH
(Weedon, 1854-1919, Actor, Co-Author & Illustrator of 'A Diary of a Nobody')
Autograph Letter Signed to Sydney PAXTON,
(1860-1930, Actor, son of the Revd. E. Paxton Hood, 1830-1908), saying he is "not sure whether I answered your kind letter wishing me success etc. If I did not, then allow me now ... to do so, & wishing you every success", 1 side 8vo., The Old House, Canonbury Place, N., 24th September no year, circa
remains of laying down by blank edge of 4th side
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
55923
£45
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