George Christy's personal career archive of celebrity correspondence, phone and address books and day-planners. ...

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George Christy's personal career archive of celebrity correspondence, phone and address books and day-planners. Comprising many hundreds of letters, thank-you notes and invitations from the absolute cream of aristocratic and entertainment celebrity society. Includes entertainment notables: Joan Crawford (several), Elizabeth Taylor, George Hurrell, Natalie Wood, Diana Ross, Tony Curtis, Tab Hunter, Bob Newhart, Lainie Kazan, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Anthony Newley, Alice Faye, Curtis Harrington, Ross Hunter, Ann Miller, Carol Channing, Cyd Charisse, Mitzi Gaynor, Joel Grey, William Haines, Janet Gaynor, Jill Ireland, Allan Carr, Phyllis Diller, Mary Martin, Gordon MacRea, Richard Mulligan, Leonard Goldberg; and high society/ literary/ publishing/ etc. notables: James T. Auchincloss (Jackie Kennedy's half-brother), Gloria Vanderbilt, Betsy Bloomingdale, Arianna Huffington, Jean-Pierre Dorleac, Earl (Mr.) Blackwell, Giorgio Armani, Hubert Givenchy, Lilly Tartikoff, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joanna (Mrs. Johnny) Carson, Jackie Collins, Valentino, Jerry Zipkin, Beatrix Miller, Beverly Sassoon, Lesley Gore, Andre Leon Talley, Rod McKuen, Harold Robbins, Danielle Steel, Ahmet Ertegun, Candy Spelling, Sidney Sheldon, etc. Lot also includes (25+) annual day-planners filled with thousands of lunch, dinner, and high-society ball appointments, personal memos to self (about column subjects and details) majority being the most exclusive locations in Los Angeles, New York, and around the world; plus (6) personal hand-notated phone and address directories filled with hundreds of the most important celebrity and high-society entries from the second-half of the 20th century. Carefully archived by Mr. Christy, the vast majority remains in very fine condition.

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