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Document 262370
JUDY HOLLIDAY. Typed Contract signed:
"Judy Holliday", 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1960 August 24 "as of July
20, 1960". Countersigned: "Harvey B. Sindle" as Assistant
Secretary of Roncom Productions. In letter form from Holliday to Roncom
Productions, Inc., New York. In part: "With reference to our Agreement of
even date pertaining to my appearance on the 'PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL'
program of December 14, 1960...I hereby agree to render my services on and in
connection with the taping session of the program up to 7:00 p.m. on the day in
question, in the event 'LAURETTE' is performed in the evening of same day...."
This contract was with Como's production company, Roncom. Holliday had
starred on Broadway in Born Yesterday (1946-1949) and Bells Are
Ringing (1956-1959). She had won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Actress for
recreating her role in Born Yesterday. At the time of this document,
Holliday was rehearsing for her title role in Laurette, a play
based on the life of actress Laurette Taylor. She took ill in October and the
show temporarily shut down in Philadelphia. A malignancy was found in her left
breast and she underwent a mastectomy. A benign throat tumor was also removed.
Holliday never returned to Laurette which then folded. Her December
14th taping of
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall was postponed until March 3, 1961 and aired
on March 8, 1961, her first public appearance since her surgery; only her throat
surgery was made public. Judy Holliday was only 43 when she succumbed to cancer
in 1965. Lightly creased. Tear at upper edge with paper loss. Overall, fine
condition.
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