Circus, Sideshow & Oddities
Wed, Oct 23, 2019 02:30AM EDT
Lot 664
Signed Letters from Cecil B. DeMille and Emmett Kelly to Each Other.
Estimate: $250 - $350
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
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Signed Letters from Cecil B. DeMille and Emmett Kelly to Each Other. 1951/52. Including a TLS from DeMille on Paramount Pictures letterhead to Kelly, thanking him for a seventieth birthday message; and a TLS from Kelly to DeMille, on hotel stationery, a heartfelt and moving letter of compliments on DeMille?s film The Greatest Show on Earth, including thanks for his inclusion in the cast: ?Words alone cannot describe how I feel towards you for the very fine way you treated me, and the many many scenes you put me in, I am surely proud of my part in this wonderful picture. Both with mailing folds, otherwise fine.
