Autograph Letter Signed from Lillian Hellman to producer and director Herman Shumlin

by Lillian Hellman, Herman Shumlin, playwright, director

$2,250 · Offered by Royal Books

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N.p. N.p., Circa 1944. Three page Autograph Letter Signed from writer Lillian Hellman to producer and longtime friend Herman Shumlin. Letter written in Fairbanks, Alaska, circa 1944. Shumlin first met Hellman, then an aspiring playwright working as a reader in Shumlin's office, in 1934. Sensing Hellman's talent after reading early drafts of The Children's Hour, Shumlin agreed to produce and direct the play. The

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