Stage & Screen
GUINNESS
(Sir Alec, 1914-2000, Actor)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr & Mrs Hunter,
saying it was simply charming and most generous of you to write in the way you did, he has handed the cheque to the Vic management, returning his and their sincere thanks, they have in the last day or two shown signs of picking up business quite considerably... it is getting around London that Shakespeare in modern dress isn't as bad as perhaps it sounds, 1 side folio, The Old Vic, Waterloo Road, S.E.1., (Ruckmans, Oakwood Hill, Dorking, crossed out), 23rd October
Item Date: 1938
Background
This was Gielgud's famous production of Hamlet, in which the young Guinness played the Prince. From a small group of letters to Captain (formerly attached to the British Agency in Cairo) and Mrs George G. Hunter.
Stock No. 55515