SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH BROADWAY CAST - SHOW BILL SIGNED WITH CO-SIGNERS

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SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH BROADWAY CAST - SHOW BILL SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: ELIA KAZAN, GERALDINE PAGE, RIP TORN - HFSID 65780
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH
BROADWAY CAST: GERALDINE PAGE, ELIA KAZAN and RIP TORN
All three sign the cast page of the Broadway performance of Tennessee Williams' play.
Show Bill signed: "
Geraldine/Page
", "
Elia Kazan
"
and
"
Rip Torn
", 1 page, 6½x9.
New York, circa 1959-1960.
Page from a playbill for Tennessee Williams'
Sweet Bird of Youth
, which was presented at the Martin Beck Theatre on Broadway from March 10, 1959-January 30, 1960.
The play was directed by
Elia Kazan, who was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award for Best Director
, and starred
Geraldine Page
as Princess Kosmonopolis and
Rip Torn
, Page's future husband, as Tom Junior. Torn was
nominated for a 1960 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play and won the 1959 Theatre World Award
for his role in this play. Actress
GERALDINE PAGE (1924-1987) took home the Best Actress 1985 Academy Award for
The Trip to Bountiful
after being
nominated for Oscars seven times:  as Best Actress
for
Summer and Smoke
(1961),
Sweet Bird of Youth
(1962) and
Interiors
(1978) and for
Best Supporting Actress
honors for
Hondo
(1953, her debut film),
You're a Big Boy Now
(1966),
Pete 'n' Tillie
(1972) and
The Pope of Greenwich Village
(1984). Page, who had begun her acting career as a stage actress, had received raves for her performance in the off-Broadway production of Tennessee Williams'
Summer and Smoke
, and began her film career the following year. Page also
won two Emmy Awards
for her portrayals of Truman Capote's eccentric mother in
A Christmas Memory
(1967) and
The Thanksgiving Visitor
(1969). She was
married to actor Rip Torn
from 1961 until her death in 1987. Stage, screen and television actor
RIP TORN
(1931-2019) was best known for his
Emmy-winning role as talk show producer Arthur on
The Larry Sanders Show
(from 1992).
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1983
for
Cross Creek
, Torn made his film debut in 1956 in
Baby Doll
. His other feature film credits include
King of Kings
(1961),
Sweet Bird of Youth
(1962,
reprising his Tony Award-nominated stage role
),
The Cincinnati Kid
(1965),
Tropic of Cancer
(1970),
Coma
(1978),
Heartland
(1979),
Wonder Boys
(2002) and
Men in Black
(1997) and its sequel,
Men in Black II
(2002). He has also appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies and guested on TV series.
ELIA KAZAN
(1909-2003), born Elia Kazanjoglou, was a
leading figure on Broadway in the 1930s and 1940s, directing the debut productions
of such classics as
Skin of Our Teeth
,
A Streetcar Named Desire
,
Death of a Salesman
and
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
. In 1947, two years after going to Hollywood, where he made his directorial debut with
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
, Kazan won the
Best Director Academy Award
for
Gentleman's Agreement
.
He would also win
for
On the Waterfront
(1954) and was
nominated for Best Director Oscars
for
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1951) and
East of Eden
(1955). Also the
co-founder (with Lee Strasberg) of the famed Actor's Studio
, Kazan was presented an
Honorary Academy Award in 1999
for his contributions to the movie industry. Lightly soiled. Irregular left edge from removal from bound book. Overall, fine condition.
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