Typed Letter Signed
Los Angeles: 1925.
Controversial and biographical T.L.S. while in the employ of Charlie Chaplain. 4to. 2 pages, Charlie Chaplain Film Company, Los Angeles, California, February 27, 1925. In small part the letter reads: "...As you perhaps know, I have been writing for you for more than a year... You see, all my life I have mixed with people and having a vast sympathy for the little tortured people who swim in bigger seas of ego, I have developed something that makes them trust me... It is my ambition to be among these people a while -- who are no worse than the rest of the world ... only better dressed as a rule - - and I want to write about them in a novel that will give their lives...their little foolish dreams ... their little hopes and fears" "I am going to do an article on Mary Pickford for you. There will, of course, be things which I cannot publish in your magazine now ... but I can somewhere in five or ten years from now when Mary has passed from the picture forever ... the little dumpy girl with a double chin completely absorbed by a half-Jew and one-tenth actor called Fairbanks". It almost seems absurd that Tully would write such a letter. He was extremely close with Chaplain and was very much aware of the fact that the legendary comedian had started United Artists in 1919 with Pickford and Fairbanks among his closest and trusted partners. Fine condition.
American writer, vagabond and pugilist who enjoyed critical and commercial success in the 1920's and 1930's. He was called the most-hated man in Hollywood - a title he relished.
Binding: Unbound
Condition: Near Fine
Language: English
Price: $350.00
Item #283605