Elia Kazan Autogramm

Maschinengeschriebener Brief mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift, zwei Seiten, 8,5 x 11 inch, `The Actors` Studio, Inc.` Briefbogen, New York, 30.12.1950, an den Theater- und Filmdirektor Joshua Logan (1908-1988) - Aufruf zu einer Spende für das berühmte `The Actors` Studio`*, signiert in blauer Tinte "Elia Kazan" - zudem signiert von Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, und Dorothy Willard, mit zwei horizontalen Faltenspuren und kleinen Nadellöchern an der oberen linken Ecke - in gutem Zustand. 

In Ausschnitten:
"[...] Our only purpose has been to make it possible for the talented young actors in our town to go on working, to provide them with a craft home. Has the Actors' Studio done this? People like Mildren Dunnock, Karl Malden, Joan McCracken, Kim Hunter, Thelma Schnee, Lou Gilbert, William Hansen, Margaret Phillips, Mary Welch and others too do consider it their home in the Theatre. They use it that way. Marlon Brando, when he finished his recent picture told the press: 'I'm going back home to work at the Actors' Studio.' The fact is that 1697 Broadway has become a real home for a whole up and coming generation of young actors. [...]
   But now three years have passed and it seems that if we do collapse, someone would have to start over again and do exactly what we have been doing. The need can't be denied. [...]
   So we are asking you, Helen Bonfils, Howard Cullman, Robert Dowling, Leland Hayward, Oscar Hammerstein, Bea Lawrence, Joshua Logan, Mary Martin, Gilbert Miller, Joseph Verner Reed, Richard Rogers, Billy Rose, Jack Seidman, Irene Selznick, . . . if you will promise to assign a thousand dollars a year for three years to this organization. [...]"

* `The Actors Studio` ist eine berühmte amerikanische Schauspielwerkstatt in New York City (Old Labor Stage, 432 West 44th Street) mit einer Filiale in West Hollywood (Actors Studio West) und wurde im Oktober 1947 von Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford und Robert Lewis gegründet.