ERIK CHARELL - LETTER - SIGNED - CUKOR - BIZET-CARMEN

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ERIK CHARELL
Autograph letter , 2 separate pages, 8" x 10", n.d., but ca. 1937
to
Gone With The Wind
director George Cukor
Signed: "Erik"
with suggestions on use of Bizet's music in
Carmen
(a film that was to star Rosa Ponselle)
Condition: very good (stain on left)
See McGilligan,  page 139 for more details on the proposed filming
Erik Charell was a German actor and director. He was best known as a theatrical
director for musical revues and operettas especially at Grobes Schauspielhaus
in Berlin. He directed the Fox-film operetta
Caravan
(1934) in Hollywood and
adapted Shakespeare's
A
Midsummer Night's Dream
for Broadway in 1939 as the
"all black"
Swinging the Dream
with a cast including Louis Armstrong.
Born: 1895, Breslau, Germany; died: 1974, Zurich, Switzerland.
George Houle
Houle Rare Books & Autographs
Palm Springs, California 92263
SINCE 1976
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