clemence dane playwright (3 résultats)

Combined Continuity script for the 1957 re-release of the 1932 film. Based on the 1921 play by Clemence Dane. A man who has spent over a decade in a mental hospital escapes and returns home to find his wife engaged to a different man. The film debut for Katharine Hepburn. Tall white titled self-wrappers, noted as Combined Continuity on the front wrapper, dated March 3, 1957. 64 leaves, with last page of text numbered 64. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two stapes along the top edge.

See her entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, landscape 12mo. In fair condition, lightly aged, with curling to inner edge. Central vertical fold. She thanks her for writing about 'Broome Stages', and is glad she enjoyed it. 'You are quite right, it is a pleasure and an encouragement to hear that a book makes friends.' She concludes, 'Yes, I suppose the name did come from the Church: it gave me the idea, but it was pure chance, there is no association.'.

See Ashton's entry in the Oxford DNB. Both items in good condition, lightly aged, with evidence of mount to blank reverse of photograph. ONE: TLS. 17 January 1922. 1p, 12mo. Folded once. Signed 'Clemence Dane'. Addressed to G. Railton Barnard, 6 The Crescent, York. She thanks him for his 'interesting letter': 'If the same question had not already crept up once or twice, I should not have thought it possible for anyone so to misunderstand Legend, but I know people do, clear as I thought I had made it.' Barnard is 'absolutely right': 'Madala Grey is head over ears in love with her husband. She dies a truly happy woman, and one much to be envied.' TWO: 14 x 22 cm bromide print. Portrait of a seated middle-aged Ashton, in pearls and scoop neck dress, with forced grimace, staring at the viewer over a small table, on which her hands are clasped. Laid down over the bottom of the print is a 14 x 4 cm. panel of cartridge paper, on which Ashton has typed 'Yours truly' and written out in autograph her pseudonym 'Clemence Dane'. The image does not appear to be in the National Portrait Gallery collection. See image.