STAGE & SCREEN Wednesday, April 28, 2021 DOYLE.COM STAGE & SCREEN AUCTION Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 10am Eastern EXHIBITION Friday, April 23, Noon – 8pm Saturday, April 24, 10am – 6pm Sunday, April 25, Noon – 5pm Monday, April 26, 10am – 6pm And by Appointment at other times Safety protocols will be in place with limited capacity. Please maintain social distance during your visit. LOCATION Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers 175 East 87th Street New York, NY 10128 212-427-2730 This Gallery Guide was created on (date) Please see addendum for any changes The most up to date information is available On DOYLE.COM Sale Info View Lots and Place Bids Doyle New York 1 6 CELESTE HOLM CELESTE HOLM Two Gold Initial Stickpins.14 kt., of the letters Celeste Holm's monogrammed luna mink "C" and "H" for Celeste Holm, signed Schubot, coat and cap. A floor length vintage fur coat, the ap. 3 dwts. interior labeled Robert Payne and the lining C The Celeste Holm Collection embroidered Celeste Holm. $300-500 C The Celeste Holm Collection $1,000-1,500 2 CELESTE HOLM Triple Strand Cultured Pearl Necklace with Gold and Garnet Clasp. Composed of three strands of graduated pearls ap. 9.5 to 6.5 mm., completed by a stylized flower clasp centering one oval garnet, framed by 7 round garnets, further tipped by 14 oval rose-cut garnets. Length 16 inches. C The Celeste Holm Collection $500-700 7 CELESTE HOLM Celeste Holm's monogrammed ranch mink 3 coat, hat and muffler. A three-quarter length CELESTE HOLM vintage fur coat, the interior labeled Robert Van Cleef & Arpels Gold, Cabochon Sapphire Payne and the lining with a label embroidered and Diamond Compact. 14 kt., the rectangular Celeste Holm. ribbed gold case topped by a raised curved C The Celeste Holm Collection plaque with five round cabochon sapphires and 4 $800-1,200 small round diamonds, interior revealing mirror and powder compartment with mesh screen, signed Van Cleef & Arpels, no. NY 16274, reverse signed in ink by Celeste Holm, ap. 96.2 dwts. gross. With signed fitted felt case. 4 x 3 7/8 x 3/8 inches. C The Celeste Holm Collection $2,000-3,000 4 CELESTE HOLM Gold Compact with Presentation Inscription to Celeste Holm. 14 kt., the rectangular ribbed case centering a panel of polished gold, the thumbpiece with the initials CH, the interior revealing a mirror and powder compartment, the reverse engraved To Celeste/with deep appreciation/Hildegarde, ap. 68 dwts. gross. With fitted felt case. 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 x 3/8 inches. A fine gold compact presented to Celeste Holm from Hildegarde Loretta Sell, the cabaret singer dubbed "The Incomparable Hildegarde" by Walter Winchell and "The First Lady of Supper Clubs" by Eleanor Roosevelt. C The Celeste Holm Collection $2,000-3,000 5 CELESTE HOLM Cartier Silver Compact from His and Hers, 1954. The sunburst pattern compact tipped by a polished silver panel engraved Celeste, revealing mirror and powder compartment, the reverse engraved 'His and Hers', signed Cartier, no. 1475, ap. 56 dwts. gross. With signed pouch. Celeste Holm starred in the Fay and Michael Kanin written His and Hers from January to March 1954 at the 48th Street Theater in the role of Maggie Palmer, with costumes designed by Oleg Cassini. C The Celeste Holm Collection $300-500 Sale Date - 04/28/2021 Page 1 Doyle New York 8 9 HOWARD, LESLIE CELESTE HOLM A massive scrapbook devoted to Leslie's Dress worn in Another Sun, 1940. The black stage and screen career assembled by a dress with braided straps above a fringed body. Hamlet cast member and with several signed Another Son opened on February 23, 1940 at items. A thick album of thin card sheets held by the National Theatre, the southernmost ties within pebbled boards stamped "Scrap Broadway theater now known as the Book" on the cover. 16 x 11 inches. Assembled Nederlander Theatre, but closed after only 11 by actress and Howard paramour Lucia performances. Celeste Holm played the role of Robinson who toured with Leslie in Hamlet, Maria and wore this stylish gown. Previous to about three-quarters of the volume is devoted to Another Sun, Ms. Holm's first Broadway news clippings and articles on all aspects of appearances came in 1938 in Gloriana, which Leslie's career in the 1930s, and about one- ran only five performances, and in William quarter is devoted solely to Hamlet including Saroyan's The Time of Your Life, 1939-40. In several signed items, original photographs and 1937, at just 20 years only, Ms. Holm had toured ephemera relating to the tour and performances. with Leslie Howard's Hamlet with a small role The covers detached and with losses to spine, and as understudy for Ophelia. Broadway worn the leaves brittle and toned with chips and small costumes from this Golden Age period are losses, the contents generally well preserved. scarce. C The Celeste Holm Collection A fine contemporary scrapbook devoted to $1,000-1,500 British film and theater legend Leslie Howard, including several signed items and ephemera relating to the tour of Hamlet in 1937. The scrapbook documents in newsprint and magazine articles the most prolific period in Howard's career from about 1932 to his death in 1943. The album opens with images and clippings of Leslie on stage in Berkeley Square, 1932, on film in The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934, and The Petrified Forest, 1936, which co-starred Bette Davis. Several pages are devoted to articles on the performances of his daughter Leslie Ruth Howard. The next section focuses on his Shakespeare adaptations including the 1936 film version Romeo and Juliet co-starring Norma Shearer, followed by his turn as on stage as Hamlet in 1937, including several original playbills. In 1937, Leslie starred in It's Love I'm After, co-starring Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis, followed by Stand In with Joan Blondell. At this point about halfway through the scrapbook, a few hand-written notes, telegrams and letters are mounted regarding Shaw's Pygmalion, 1938. Before returning to England at the outset of World War II, three pages are devoted to Howard's role as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, 1939. In 1943, Howard was unfortunately in a plane that was gunned down by the Germans and a few pages are devoted to search for the plane. This album was assembled by Howard paramour Lucia Robinson, an actress who had a non- speaking role in Hamlet and is listed in many of the programs here. Lucia Robinson's signed contract is also present. Mounted at the back of the album are several items signed by Howard including two playbills for The Petrified Forest (one inscribed to Ms. Robinson); a signed sheet; two signed photographs (one inscribed); a signed large format program from Hamlet; at the end of the album are approximately 60 small format personal and off-stage photographs backstamped 1937 depicting Howard and the touring cast of Hamlet. This early touring cast of Hamlet also included a young Celeste Holm who at 20 years old in her first professional tour had a non-speaking part and an understudy role. Ms. Holm met here for the first time actor Wesley Addy, thirty years later her husband for thirty years, and this scrapbook was a gift to them from Leslie Howard's widow because of the Hamlet content. A remarkable and important album chronicling the peak of success in the Salecareer Date of Leslie - 04/28/2021 Howard. C The Celeste Holm Collection $1,000-1,500 Page 2 Doyle New York 10 11 OKLAHOMA! OKLAHOMA! Celeste Holm's signed contract for Green Celeste Holm's annotated script and song Grow the Lilacs, 1943, the musical that book for Green Grow the Lilacs, the musical became Rodger and Hammerstein's that became Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! A printed Actor's Equity Association Oklahoma! Two items, comprising: Ms. Holm's Standard Minimum Contract, dated in type 3 signed and notated original script for Green February 1943, here hiring Celeste Holm to Grow the Lilacs, 30 typed scripts sheets and appear as Ado Annie in Green Grow the Lilacs various inserts on a thin onion-skin paper (being for the rate of $225 per week in New York and full or half sheets), laid-into its original folding $250 per week on tour, signed in ink "Celeste manila wrappers with "Green Glow the Holm" and countersigned by Theatre Guild Lilacs/Ado Annie Carnes" to the cover in type, manager Theresa Helburn. 20 x 9 inches. additionally signed in ink "Celeste Holm" across Horizontally folded, else fine with a large dark the cover at a later date, the sheets within with signature. numerous annotations in Ms. Holm's hand. 7 1/9 x 9 inches. The cover with creases, short tears The contract that launched the career of Celeste and small losses, the contents handled by Holm, committing her to the key role of Ado generally clean; And Ms. Holm's signed song Annie in the musical shortly renamed Oklahoma! book, brad-bound in manila wrappers signed in that changed Broadway forever and made pencil "Celeste Holm", 12 x 9 1/2 inches, 22 Celeste Holm a star. But just before the success mimeographed typed sheets headed with the of Oklahoma!, in 1942 Celeste Holm was a titles of 12 songs, a few extended over several hostess at the Stage Door Canteen, the famous pages, two with annotations in Ms. Holm's hand cafe just off Times Square that offered the (I Can't Say No and The Farmer and the droves of servicemen passing through free food, Cowman).