GUINNESS (Sir Alec, 1914-2000, Actor)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr & Mrs Hunter, saying "it was simply charming and most generous of you to write in the way you did", he has handed the cheque "to the Vic management", returning his and their "sincere thanks", they have "in the last day or two shown signs of picking up business quite considerably ... it is getting around London that Shakespeare in modern dress isn't as bad as perhaps it sounds", 1 side folio, The Old Vic, Waterloo Road, S.E.1., (Ruckmans, Oakwood Hill, Dorking, crossed out), 23rd October

This was Gielgud's famous production of Hamlet, in which the young Guinness played the Prince. From a small group of letters to Captain (formerly attached to the British Agency in Cairo) and Mrs George G. Hunter.

Item Date:  1938

Stock No:  55515      £250

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