Bidspirit auction | COLLINGE PATRICIA: (1892-1974)

COLLINGE PATRICIA: (1892-1974) - COLLINGE PATRICIA: (1892-1974) Irish-American actress, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 1941 for her performance as Birdie Hubbard in The Little Foxes . A scarce vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Collinge standing in a three-quarter length pose in costume from one of her Broadway stage performances. Photograph by the Vandamm Studio of New York and bearing two blind embossed credit stamps to the lower corners, and a further credit stamp to the verso. Signed by the actress in fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image. Together with an A.L.S., Patricia Collenge , two pages, 8vo, Beekman Place (New York), 17th September 1948, to Murray D. Morrison. Collinge thanks her correspondent for having sent news of Dame Edith Evans, remarking ´I am so glad she is doing the ”Way of the World” - I have always understood that she is out of this world as Millamant - and you know we have seen her here without a bit of make-up and padding - and people think she is a great fat old woman´ . Also including a second A.L.S., Patricia Collinge , two pages, 8vo, Chicago, 5th November 1948, also to Murray D. Morrison, on the printed stationery of the Hotels Ambassador. Collinge again writes of Dame Edith Evans, in part, ´I was so glad to get the interview - I think it is splendid. I could see the Dame in action - and hear her. I especially loved her nose-dive into War - Russia - and Peace and the Theatre. I hope I will be able to see her, at last, as Millamant, but I don´t know just when I will be back......Thank you again for letting me have the interview. I think you caught her personality perfectly - and of course I was very much touched by her reference to me´ . Both letters are accompanied by the original envelopes, hand addressed by Collinge and signed by her in the return address panels. One light central horizontal crease to the photograph (barely visible and running across a darker area). G to VG, 3 Dame Edith Evans (1888-1976) English actress, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress in 1964 and 1965, and for Best Actress in 1968. Evans first performed the role of Millament in The Way of the World in 1924, achieving wide public fame for the first time. Years later Evans also starred in a production of the play, in 1948, exchanging the role of Millament for that of Lady Wishfort.