YVES MONTAND AUTOGRAPH LETTER

to

                                                                        DIRECTOR GEORGE CUKOR

2 pages (recto and verso), 4" x 5 1/2", n.d., but circa 1961

on his engraved 15 Place Dauphine, Paris correspondence Card

Signed: "Yves"

 

A gracious and loving letter to the director in which Montand

comments on the film Let's Make Love **, his improving English,

his wife's filming, etc.

In part: ..."Excuse my English, my dear George. / But all I can say is I

look forward to seeing you soon. / Je vous embrace...Merci encore une

foie for everything."

** Let's Make Love (1960), co-starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Randall,

 was directed by George Cukor

Condition: fine

Yves Montand (born Ivo Livi) was a French actor and singer. He grew up in Marseille 

and began his show business career as a music-hall singer. In 1944 he was discovered

by Édith Piaf in Paris and she made him part of her act. In 1951 he married French

actress Simone Signoret. Films include: The Wages of Fear (1953), Let's Make Love (1960),

Sanctuary, (1961), Z (1969), Jean de Florette (1986).

Born: 1921, Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, Italy; died: 1991, Senlis, Oise, France.