Christmas card from the Lunts [to Lord David Cecil] - with a manuscript note, circa 1954

Lynn FONTANNE & Alfred LUNT

Beschreibung

Single card sheet, folded, with the printed message, "A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR [facsimile signatures] Lynn Fontanne Alfred Lunt", and, mounted on the verso, a real photograph, 125 x 112mm, by Cecil Beaton, of the couple on stage, holding hands under the lights. With the additional manuscript note (in the hand of Alfred Lunt?), "We are so happy over the sensational success of your 'Melbourne' - here in the United States". Lord David Cecil's biography Lord M., or The Later Life of Lord Melbourne was published by Bobbs-Merrill in the US in 1954, incorporating its earlier companion The Young Melbourne in one volume as, simply, Melbourne. Beaton's photograph of the actors Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (they married in 1922) is dated by the National Portrait Gallery to 1952. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DC100108

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Titel: Christmas card from the Lunts [to Lord David...

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