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THBActor Songwriter GEORGE M. COHAN Signed Note Plus Playwright SIDNEY KINGSLEY
Lot 104
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Actor & Songwriter GEORGE M. COHAN Signed Note
GEORGE M. COHAN (1878-1942). American Patriotic Songwriter, Actor, Playwright, and Producer. Cohan published more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including: "Over There", "Give My Regards to Broadway", "The Yankee Doodle Boy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag".
a.k.a. "the father of American musical comedy."... Together With:
SIDNEY KINGSLEY (1906-1995). Playwright.
(c. July 23, 1906) Boldly Autographed Note or Album Page Signed and Inscribed, "To Joe / Thank You / George M. Cohen" and Sidney Kingsley Signs on verso, "Joe / Sidney Kingsley". Upper part of "J" cut off on Kingsley side, no date or place. This clean bright wove paper measures about 4" x 3.5". Lot is apparently from 1906 as it includes a clipping from a newspaper dated, "Week Begining Monday Evening, July 23, 1906.", showing a program for the "New Amsterdam Theatre" that is presenting George M. Cohen's "The Governor's Son". Both items Choice Very Fine. (2 items).
GEORGE M. COHAN (1878-1942) Actor, popular songwriter, playwright, and producer especially of musical comedies, George M. Cohan's productions included The Governor's Son (1901), Forty-five Minutes from Broadway (1906), The Talk of New York (1907), Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1910), Broadway Jones (1912), Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913), The Tavern (1921), The Song and Dance Man (1923), and American Born (1925). Among his best-known appearances were those in Ah, Wilderness! (1933) and I'd Rather Be Right (1937).
George Cohan composed numerous songs, including "You're a Grand Old Flag," "Mary's a Grand Old Name," "Give My Regards to Broadway," "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy," and the famous "Over There" in the first World War, for which Congress authorized him a special medal in 1940.
SIDNEY KINGSLEY (1906-1995) Playwright Sidney Kingsley explored the social ills of the Depression era in exhaustively researched and realistic plays, notably the winner of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Men in White (filmed 1934), which chronicled the lives of medical interns and proselytized in favor of legalizing abortion, and Dead End (1935; filmed 1937), an indictment against slums as a haven for crime.
After earning a B.A. from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Kingsley embarked on a brief acting career while at the same time writing plays. Both Men in White and Detective Story (1949; filmed 1951), a compelling melodrama focusing on the way that the personal life of a detective influenced his professional judgment, became narrative models for future hospital and police dramas. Another play, The Patriots (1943), examined the ideologies of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and won the New York Drama Critics Circle plaque as best play.
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