Partial letter from Ford Killen

Partial letter from Ford Killen

Chat about show business shows and films. Other gossip and banter.

Two sided handwritten letter

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(A change of paper – I thought I brought some thin with me, but I discover to my amazement that I haven’t)

– thing to soothe the nerves & put you in a peaceful mood. If you haven’t already seen it – & get a chance – please see “A Song To Remember” – it features 28 of Chopin’s melodies, including Polonaise, minute Waltz, nocturnes, etc. I’ve seen it 4 times for the music alone. And will see it again if I get the chance, Merle Oberon plays George Sand – & how she played it! The best of our actresses in Hollywood – ironically – are British. Miss Oberon – Ada Lupins (she’s my favorite [sic]) Joan Fontaine (Rebecca) & (Jane Eyre), Olivia de Havilland, Vivien (Scarlett O’Hara) Leigh, Binnie Barnes, Gracie Fields, & others. Seems that the British are naturally gifted for Acting, & the lure of Hollywood (& its fabulous [indecipherable word]) is great. Someday the whole world may see in lights on a theatre marquee –

KATHLEEN MEYERS
AND
CLARK GABLE
[inserted] See – I gave you top billing [symbol] [/inserted]
in
“ONLY the GOOD Die YOUNG”
STORY BY FORD KILLEN

They always find the smallest print for the names of the authors – it would have been smaller but this pen won’t print any smaller. Or, I might write up an article for a great American newspaper – Kathleen Meyers Wows West End – or Broadway.

Nuff of this castles in the air, stuff. So you’re finally reading “G.W.T.W.”? I read it the first winter I spent in England, and as I said before – I reiterate: There were bor –

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ing passages; it didn’t compel my interest from cover to cover, but once you have finished it, you can look back & declare it a literary masterpiece. No human-being could write a book that would please everybody in every passage.

And don’t think that I can’t spell (when you read my article – the printers ruined it & lineotype [sic] operators – leaving out letters, adding S’s when they weren’t needed, & taking them off when they shouldn’t – but [underlined] again [/underlined] they are human & the newspapers are so short-handed for help, they can’t find the best proof-readers to6 catch the errors.

Please write to me at the same address; until you hear further from me. I hope I’m not considered essential – so I won’t have to remain in the Air Force.

Darling I’ve gotta get this off & pack so I can leave this afternoon. So I’ll say “Cheerio”, “Au revoir,” “hasta La Vista”, etc and I’ll be thinking of you & writing to you when I have a more coherent schedule –

So All my love
Always,
Heathcliffe