As I approach unfinished territory with my writing, I will post it as it stands. However, please remember to check back, as I'm nowhere near through and will continue the writing process in this blog. In the meantime, you'll have some good information, and I will do my best to pull all of this together. Going forward, I will write from my point of view, but it will change, and I will insert Aggie into telling the story as I work my way through it.
Trust In Humanity 1957
“Of course, I was much younger then. I had more trust in humanity then, but I think people were more truthful. They had standards of right and wrong.”
Four years later, I want a divorce!
1957 2 April Agnes files for divorce from Robert Gist, charging cruelty, asking for $1.00 a month maintenance, and saying the property settlement only needs the court's approval. It is said that they married in Yuma on February 14, 1953, and have been separated since July 15, 1954. This divorce remains fodder for the papers through April. April 2, 1957, Long Beach Press-Telegram Agnes filed for divorce from Robert Gist.
At some point in 1957 (the letter is undated, but that is the year “Funny Face” was released, Agnes received a letter. The letter was meant as a joke, and she took it as one. I pulled this from a folder filled with all kinds of unusual things. It was accompanied by two legal, the long ones, pad sheets covered in what appears to be Chinese glyphs. I can hardly wait to tackle that! My Chinese is nonexistent.
This letter, which I have dubbed the Missy Agelez letter, was, I believe, actually a dinner invitation from the producer of “Funny Face” Roger Edens. When I first read it, I laughed out loud in the tranquil archive reading room and garnered several sideways glances. Here it is:
The Missy Agelez Letter
In the hundreds of pieces of paper that I’ve read, turned upside down because I couldn’t read it or looked at and just sighed because I knew I had a million more to read was this gem:
My lady, honorable Missy Agilez Murehead
I am new just after coming away from the cinema theatre, from which I have great overwhelming experience of witnessing from your historical histrionics from that beautiful technicolor subtitled “In Las Vegas Meey My.”
You were divine in the ballet dance with the gentleman dancer in the silky tights in the garden spot. And you were very droll in the maneuvers with the gambling devices. But I think you were my lady absolute perfection when you have imbibe two much of the spirit of alcohol, and you act like that other sterling lady actress of Missy Sus’n Haiwod who was great emotional in that “I Cry Tears Tomorrow.) But I think you very much better.
In fac, I think you very much more better than other lady actriss coming from cinema of Hollywood. And just in case you must know, my very good friend Mem Sahib Roger Edens, who is esteemed producer of distinguished cinema he, ask me to tell you hello and thank you for all the nice things you are been saying about his latest spectacle of technicolor which is call “Face of Funny.” My friend Mr. Edens say you are very nice lady to say so nice things about he picture.
He say he be back in Hollywood soon and you come for dinner, no?
I remain your obedient servant,
Yom Kippur O’Brien
I Want To Play Madame Tussaud!
Agnes was quite the character! 1957, while dining at LaRue, she told Paul Gregory she wanted to play Madame Tussaud. In July, she attended a fancy event for the Prime Minister of Pakistan at The Embassy Room, which ended with a midnight supper.
That year, she also worked on the TV shows "Climax!" and "Wagon Train," and started working on "The Rivalry" in April. In December, Agnes met the Douglas family in Greensboro, North Carolina. She signed on to do "Jesse James" in March, and in April, Paul Gregory escorted her to NYC for "The Naked and the Dead." Oh, and in August, there was some drama with Robert Mitchum and a party, which Agnes was at. Finally, in December, Robert Gist was in The Naked and the Dead."
Oh This Rivalry
Dear Agnes
Because great crises in the world have developed many times out of absurd misunderstandings,
I wanted to comment on the item that mentioned the possibility of my playing in “The Rivalry” in Brussels. Massey and Dalrymple, in discussing the feasibility of its being done there talked of your unavailability because of picture commitments, which indeed you had also mentioned to me.
At this juncture, it was suggested that I might play it for three days it would be done, as kind of a lark, and certainly, it never occurred to anyone that you might care one way or the other. I gathered, however, from Paul Gregory’s rather strong statement in the New York Times that you opposed the whole idea, even though it had been a nebulous suggestion at most.
Please, darling, know how sorry I am if this has caused you any upset whatsoever on your part. It would be ridiculous after all these years of friendship to have a breach over “a tempest in a teapot.”
The letter is undated and unsigned, but I cannot tell conclusively if the writer was male or female. Agnes is mentioned as unavailable, and having blown a gasket when she heard this was even discussed lends itself to the writer being an actress taking the part that Agnes played, Mrs. Douglas.
“The Rivalry” never went to Brussels in the end. According to Paul Gregory, he lost money on the venture. This is interesting because it is specifically about Agnes throwing a temper tantrum. It has appeared in writing repeatedly that Agnes was sweet, lovely, feminine, and talented. Paul Gregory is the only person I know of outside of the Ginger Rogers debacle who made documented statements that Agnes threw temper tantrums. Here’s your proof.
Joy In The Journey 1958
“To me, true success is finding joy in the journey, not just the destination.”
Agnes Moorehead
A Quickie divorce?
1958, 16 January: Robert Gist returns from Mexico and gives his address as 19320 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, California
The Malaria Kid
1958, 6 February Robert is in “The Naked and the Dead.” Agnes asks Paul Gregory if he is the naked or the dead and refers to him as “the malaria kid.
Divorce Sweet Divorce
1958 12 March Agnes gets divorced. She claims she was harassed into doing it and that Gist left after 17 months of marriage. For two years, she was called by various women, urging her to get a divorce.
Robert Hooks, an heiress, moves to Malibu.
On 10 April 1958, the newspaper announced that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gist lived at 19858 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu.1958 1 April, Robert Gist had his first son with Jacqueline Mi,ckles Jason Gist, born in Los Angeles.
A Man In Uniform
1,958 28 June: Agnes was drying her hair from the window of the apartment she was renting in Rome when she saw the King’s guard. She said they were gorgeous and nearly leaped out the window since she was only three floors up.
Busy, busy, busy, NOT BUSY
"Agnes was always jetting off somewhere for work. I mean, the woman was a whirlwind! In 1955 alone, she logged over 23,000 miles for her shows since the previous September. She even tried her hand at a project with Robinson Jeffers called 'The Cretan Woman,' though that one didn't pan out.
And it wasn't all work, work, work. Agnes made time for people. She went to this big send-off party for a military officer, Lieutenant Conrad Binyon, who was on 'Mayor of the Town' with her and Lionel Barrymore—talk about a small world! She even got an honorary membership in their squadron, which is fantastic. Then there was the farewell bash for Dick Powell and June Alyson.
Agnes was still making movies and doing TV work. She signed on for 'The Left Hand of God' with Humphrey Bogart, recorded poetry, and attended the L.A. premiere of 'The Caine Mutiny.' She also sang in Roberta and The Merry Widow TV productions and agreed to co-star with Paul Kelley in The Amazing Miss Withers.'
She even squeezed in some hosting gigs. Agnes co-hosted some awards thingy with Claire Trevor and, in a completely different twist, helped auction off furniture at Howard's Auction Gallery with Judy Canova. Seriously, she did it all!
Directing was also on her mind. Agnes was supposed to direct Don Juan in Hell, but then Charles Laughton stepped in, and she rejoined the cast. Things got a little complicated with Bob Gist, who tried to reconcile, but Agnes had moved on.
She finished the year with even more work. Agnes signed on for 'The Revolt of Mamie Stover' and 'Pardners' and even read the Bible at a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce holiday luncheon. It's honestly amazing how she managed to cram everything in!
The Tangible Facts
I can see you scratching your head and thinking, " What is this all about anyway? It is about perception and information. As far as most of the average public reading the news of the day is concerned, this was all true. Fifty-plus years after the fact, we now know it just isn't the case. This was the public interpretation of what was going on in her life. It was more like a game of telephone where information is shared and shared again until it doesn't resemble fact.
Here are the tangible facts:
1. Sean was never adopted by Agnes and certainly not by either of her two husbands. He was reared in a single-parent environment for most of his young life.
2. Agnes's marriage to Jack Lee was a nightmare. He beat her. They separated in 1945 and got back together. On June 15, 1949, Agnes separated from Lee, and they counter each other for divorce, both alleging cruelty in 1950. It takes three years, just about from separation to divorce.
3. Agnes hosted Robert's parents as her guests at her home in 1949.
4. Robert M Gist was married before Agnes in 1943 to Louise Van Dyke, and I can find no record of a divorce. However, Louise died in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1981 and is listed as Louise Sedore. Louise is listed in the 1940 census as the "partner" of Evelyn Lucinda Graves, a trained nurse. The term didn't mean then what it does now, but that they are recorded as partners is a fact.
5. Robert Gist had seven children with two women. The first was born when he legally married Agnes. Two women had two with him in 1958. Frankly, it's mind-boggling, but there you go.
6. Robert was married, that I know of, a total of five times, including Agnes. Agnes did say during divorce proceedings that she was harassed by telephone by several women asking her to get a divorce. Who knew he'd married at least two of them, I think.
7. Agnes plainly said her first husband had died, and the second one she divorced. We know that Jack Lee died a few months after Agnes. Perhaps she mentally killed him off. Robert continued to work in Hollywood. Jack remarried in 1956 to Joanna Johnson and stayed married until his death. Joanna never remarried and was buried in 2005 as Joanna Lee.
You’re Giving Me A Complex
Agnes was a profoundly complex woman. She hid so much of herself from people that I doubt anyone, including her mother, knew every little detail about her. We can view the timeline of her life as it should have happened now because of the Internet and newspaper archives available for research from our living rooms. To assume, however, that we are an authority on her public or private life is just us wishing. I've read as much about her as I know and, in most cases, more about her than anybody else. Even so, I could not and would not say for sure that she thought, felt, or behaved in any particular way about anything. She was phobic about allowing people to get too close; she didn't trust them, her own words, not mine, and she made an art of being aloof.
Ol’ Dad
While Agnes did indeed make an art out of being aloof, those who spent time with her fell in love with her. As her marriage to Robert Gist fell apart, a man named Patrick Waltz came into Aggie’s life in a big way. Waltz stage-managed Aggie’s one-woman show and, along with Kathy Ellis, probably spent more one-on-one time with Agnes than any human outside her mother. Patrick drove Kathy and Agnes to the destination for her one-woman show, and as his last name suggests, he was a good dancer. At some point, he earned the nickname Ol’ Dad, but how and why remains a mystery. Patrick sent one of the most love-filled letters I have ever read to Agnes, and then well wishes passed on to Kathy. This is that letter:
My Sweet L’il Red
Well, it was just about two years ago that we were ready to leave—on what proved to be one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life. You and Kathy were truly a joy to be with! How many times have I gone back and reviewed the splendor and, laughter and happiness we all shared? I have never, nor do I expect I shall ever travel with two sweeter, more thoughtful gals–and may I add, more beautiful creatures.
Remember when we first started–we all agreed that this would be a tour we would never forget, and with the passage of time and thoughts–we would all relive the many little things that go to make up precious memories. The many times I started down the wrong road (so sure this was the right route) and the little navigator burying herself under 27 pounds of maps–and proving me “Thirty miles out of the way!” (we can’t be) but damned if we weren’t. The funny cracks coming from the back seat, and when you were tired, the laughter you gave us–the encouragement. Some of those on-the-spot jokes you pulled—” Maybe he’s a cow,” and naming the car Bess–long, low black Bess. Boy, lovely memories…thank you, Agnes—and I thank Kathy, too (How this little girl adores you–wow.)
I’ll tell you how this letter came about. For the past week—every time I turn on the radio, I hear “Why,” “Smile,” and “This Is My Beloved”--something by Sauter-Finnegan, Nat Cole—the changing of the weather sends me out to Our Days–(and everyone has his day, they say). If I didn’t tell you, then I loved every mile, every bump, every creaky to,wn and small dance floor–
And I was so proud every time you took the stage and sent electricity out into the crowds. I was proud to be a part of it, to be with you and Kathy, and to be in some small part representative of your great talent.
And so—-to you, dear Red, Thank You
And to dear, sweet Kathy, Thank You
All my love shall always be with you both–let’s go dancing soon.
Ol’ Dad
Patrick
It’s incredible when you read a letter like this, generated from genuine joy and love. Waltz earned his stripes, for sure, from one small town to another and one small dance floor to another: Aggie, Ol’ Dad, and Kath.
Buried Under Twenty-Seven Pounds Of Paper
The archives I have gone through, and I mean GONE THROUGH, all have a few common threads regarding their relationship to Agnes, how she viewed them, and how they viewed her. There are three kinds of correspondence in these archives:
Business letters dealing with payments, bookings, recordings, interviews, citations, and one collection notice.
Birthday cards, Christmas cards, Valentine's Day cards, I made an ass of myself cards, and all sorts of odd little cards that obviously came either as a gift or in flowers.
Letters from “friends and associates.” I put that in quotations because there are levels to the friends of Agnes Moorehead. When the letter begins with Dear Agnes, it is likely from friends we might classify as acquaintances. When the letter begins Dear Miss Moorehead, it is, if handwritten or badly typed, a fan letter. When the letter began, Dear Aggie, those people knew her the best and understood exactly who she was.
Each one has been read and faithfully transcribed right down to the crazy spelling of many different words, foreign and domestic. One particular small card that was obviously on a gift or in flowers reads thusly:
Miss you, my wife—-
JW
Believe me when I tell you I am desperately trying to figure out who JW is.
Then there is this odd little gem that had been on a gift of some sort:
If your evening was spoiled
I am sorry.
Ben Maltz
A simple apology, right? Nope. Benjamin N. Maltz, aka Ben Maltz, was a powerful man.
In 1954, Ben Malts, a Chicago native, was hired as the first Chairman of the Board for the brand-new City National Bank in Beverly Hills. If you were ill, a banker to the stars, and the bank went on to be called “Bank of the Stars.” This man sent an apology to Agnes for an unknown issue that had happened between them. These people knew her, went to parties with her, escorted her to premieres, and became dominant over them, including the very wealthy Ben Maltz, the banker.
There are many pieces of paper dealing with Agnes and her life, which are way more than 27 pounds. Reading them and understanding them has given me information about Agnes's facets. Thank heaven she was a packrat regarding cards, letters, and telegrams. I have learned to love and, at the same time, hate her penchant for “Scrapbooking.” Without her desire to memorialize her past, we would never see behind the veneer she shrouded herself. But Aggie was extraordinarily sentimental, so letters and cards delighted her like nobody I’ve ever seen. Again, thank heaven!
This letter is from an artist in Rome named Piero:
Oct 25 ( no ye, ar and the stamp has been removed, but Pope Pius died in October 1958
Agnes Darling!
I hope you recognized my charming handwriting on the envelope….I get so “gaga” when I have to write your address! Specially now that I could have written it from New York. But no! I was ready to leave next 28th, but a new job keeps me doing it. I’ll stay to decorate a 10-room apartment in Roma for Mr. Nacmias, who’s at the MGM offices in Roma. He married a very wealthy woman from the USA! What a marvelous country! ……. unreadable. To be merry and get merry again.
Think that I could have kissed you very soon in NY, and I could have come to applaud you! Ho! Hell! But I will come around the end of December and will be delighted to work for you. We have a deal: I have to do a mural as promised to my dear red-headed friend.
I am burning my eyes in painting lots of new pictures for an eventual show in the States…had lately four commissioned—thank god otherwise, I could have starved. I feel quite successful, and I am not sleeping on my roses.
My latest models:
Countess Consuelo Crespi
Princess Irene Galetzine
Princess Nicky Boncompagnie
Unless they don’t have a title, I don’t use them. Next step will be the Queens.
I have done about 12 pictures since last September. Please do not forget me. I have the loveliest souvenir of our gay Spoleto and Roma time. I do wish you the best success for the actual and future work. Please remind me to your darling secretary.
The goings on for the former Pope were fantastic. Saw the wonderful, impressive funeral, saw him dead in S.Peter, saw the last celebration mass for him last Saturday. I had some very difficult friends, tourists always nagging about everything. They were impressed and loved all the goings on. “Finally, something unusual,” they said!
Darling, my bed is really calling me to make me rest for the day. It’s late, and I will dream of you.
With all my affection and love,
Your Piero
A note on the envelope, likely written by Kathy, says: The scent of violets perfumed my room all day when I opened this darling letter. I answered on 11/3.
This is another undated card from Patrick Waltz. It is another example of an undated item from Waltz. What is most touching is that Waltz added everything highlighted on the card. He refers to Agnes as “Darling Princess.” I have close friends, one I’ve known for 60 years, and we correspond. Not once in all our long history did I ever start with “Darling Princess.” Aggie’s relationship with istz was different. The man loved her, and I believe he was in love with her, but nothing ever came of it, and Waltz went on to marry. After that, his notes take a decided turn toward friendly banter and lean less toward passion. This is a transcript of that card:
Patrick Waltz Card
It’s not a Little Rough Spot; our Trips Across USA.
It’s not a modern picture, Louisvi,lle Kentucky.
It’s not a patch they put on tires and then fill up with air; Columbus, what a blowout, remember?
Darling Princess,
No matter what anyone says, you’re still my mauve.
Patri, Dec 6 ( no year, no envelope)
My Flaws and Strengths 1959
“I have a love of life that allows me to embrace my flaws and celebrate my strengths.”
Agnes Moorehead
The Once-Brilliant Career
As 1959 drew to a close, the once-brilliant movie career of Agnes Moorehead showed signs of dimming. Her personal life was a disaster, and she had spent the last five years attempting to put it back together. She was a victim of her own brilliance. She had built her reputation in Hollywood on the back of several stellar movies in which she played characters that she would never be able to duplicate. She had run afoul of typecasting. She was a maiden aunt, a hysterical mother, or a harpy born of the feverish imagination of a screenwriter. She gave 200 percent of herself in everything she did, but she was only ever going to be as good as the part would allow, and her age was pushing her toward parts that she found distasteful.
The Bat and Miss CoThe year rney
1959 ended with the release of The Bat. Although Cornelia Van Gorder is an amusing character, this movie was the first low point of her career. The campiness of the part would have swallowed a lesser actress, but not Agnes; she was a phoenix, which would be the rebirth of the Fabulous Redhead.
I point to the character of Cornelia as the rebirth of the “Fabulous Redhead” because, with this part, Agnes freed her ability to be a comedienne for the third time in her film career. She suddenly seemed to let go of the tragedy and embrace the comedy. She created the embryonic Endora in that role. Cornelia was flashy, tart, forward, strong, determined, and, most of all, did not care what anyone thought about her. At that point, Agnes was playing Agnes or Endora, which was the same.
As the “Don Juan In Hell” phenomenon faded, Agnes had been confronted with a series of not-so-hot parts. She did them because they paid the bills, not because they would ever be considered a delicate dramatic moment, but because something else was happening behind the scenes. A phenomenon in itself, it was a one-woman show called “The Fabulous Redhead.” It was the brainchild of Charles Laughton. During his time with Agnes in Don Juan, he was impressed with her ability to converse, tell stories, emote, and play comedic bits. Under his tutelage, she began formulating “The Fabulous Redhead.”
The birth of this child of theatre was to have included Robert Gist. However, fate intervened, casting him in The Caine Mutiny in New York. I’ve often asked myself if Gregory had done that on purpose. He pushed Gist right into the part and out of Agnes’ professional and personal life. The first performance of “The Fabulous Redhead” was scheduled in January 1954 in Reno, Nevada. Still, it was postponed allegedly because Gist could not free himself of the obligation of the "Caine Mutiny." Initial press releases included Robert in the credits, but by the time it opened in Reno in April 1954, it did so without the presence of Robert Gist. The great thing is that people loved it. They loved Agnes and her ability to make them feel like they were being spoken to directly. She would use this gift repeatedly over the next 15 years of the same show by herself on as many stages as she could stand to get out of bed and get on. It would go through many incarnations, “The Fabulous Redhead,” “Come Closer and I’ll Give You an Earful,” and finally, “The Lavender Lady.” The latter was a nickname given to her by Laughton, and it is the one that the majority of us remember her for because it was, fortunately for us all, the one that got recorded. Amidst all the ups and downs of 1959, Robert rubbed his final bit of salt into the barely healed wound of Aggie’s divorce by marrying Jacqueline Mickles, a Canadian heiress to the Labatte Brewery fortune. Naturally, they had their first child before they married, but at least he married her. It was in every single newspaper, and there was no way Agnes could miss it. He dumped her for the chance to find another woman with far more money, but in the end, Jacqueline divorced him seven years later and kept custody of their children. Karma is a thing, Robert.
The teacher returns
Agnes was incredibly busy in the late '50s! In 1959, she juggled acting and teaching. She led three private drama classes in Hollywood and taught regular seminars at USC. Honestly, it's incredible that she found the time!
That year, the Drama Teachers Association of Southern California honored her with an Achievement Award. She also coached Anita Sands and helped Buddy Rogers prepare for his role in "Red Letter Day" with Gloria Swanson.
In April, she traveled to Monmouth, Illinois, to speak at a two-day drama forum at Monmouth University. She was always on the go, sharing her passion for drama.
Robert Marries AGAIN
Robert Gist moved on quickly. In September 1959, he married Jacqueline Mickles, a model and heiress. He seemed pretty excited about it, telling the papers that the wedding bells would drown out the noise of his divorce from Agnes. He even sold his motorcycle to buy a house for Jacqueline. Meanwhile, Agnes finally got the official divorce decree, which meant she was finally free from Robert.
A new Egyptian beau,
1959, 12 June Agnes attends Don Loper’s dinner for Curt Jurgens on the arm of a “new Egyptian beau.”
Pink Jungle fiasco
1959 The Pink Jungle
1959, 23 October Agnes has dinner at the White Horse Inn with a co-star from “The Pink Jungle.” 1959 12 August Announcement that Paul Gregory is producing “The Pink Jungle” with Agnes and Ginger Rogers
Molly Is On A Roll
Molly Moorehead was a force of nature. She was rigid, unforgiving, and harsh, but she greatly loved her daughter. Like her daughter Agnes, Molly was determined that everything in her world should operate according to her rules; it is no wonder that mother and daughter struggled so much. The tone of the letter below seems typical of a conversation with Molly. Those were complex at best. When you read this letter, you are struck immediately by the kind tone of the beginning; then, in what has come to be typical of Molly, she finds a way to be harsh to Agnes over something as simple as communication. Agnes relied on others to handle most of the communication with her mother. Why else would we have this:
1959
My dear Agnes,
Thanks for the lovely box of goodies–a lovely Valentine. We are sad today, for the news of Mr. Caldwell’s death came late last night. He died of a stroke. (very suddenly) He was such a wonderful man and always so lovely to us.
I would like to know if you got the Christmas box. If you haven’t time to write a line, don’t bother someone else to do it. The last note was just a weather report, and I can get that from the newspaper if I’m interested.
Hope you are well.
Lovingly
Mother
Mr. Caldwell was Reverand William Caldwell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, where John had been the pastor from 1920 to 1924. He died suddenly on February 18, 1959, in Wisconsin Rapids, where he was living.
It's hard to believe, but Agnes's mom, Molly, and her friend Grace were still super close in 1959! They went to Chicago for Christmas with Reverend Caldwell's family as a yearly tradition. Then, they were back in Chicago in February for the Reverend's funeral. It sounds like he was a really important person in their lives.
After that, Molly and Grace had visitors of their own! They hosted Don Wege from Kansas in May and another guy, Wendell Poe, from Illinois, just two days later. Their house was always open to friends. And get this—at the end of May, they went to spend a couple of days with Mrs. Caldwell. They sure did get around!
Party With Bluntness
"Agnes was all over the place in 1959! In April, she was doing photo ops at the 'Lei Aloha Fair' at Chaminade High School. Then, in June, she was on a radio show, answering questions about why there's so much mediocre stuff in entertainment. A few weeks later, she was entertaining at a dinner in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel, looking fabulous in a floral gown.
"In July, she signed on for 'The Rebel,' her first show in a new TV series. August had her cast in Pollyanna, and in September, she did a radio show called Headshrinker. Agnes also went to a wedding for a blind woman with a seeing-eye dog—she's a member of the Seeing Eye Dogs Foundation, which is really cool.
"October was busy too. She had dinner at the White Horse Inn with a co-star from 'The Pink Jungle,' then there was a luncheon and cocktail party in her honor. She really knew how to work a room!"
Dear Aggie,
By all theatrical and photogenic standards, you are beautiful to the eye. But to me, you are beautiful inside as we are even more so!
Saturday night, you gave a lesson in the poise department and real fine taste to all who watched
And the “so-called pros” that were present.
Please stay well.
Benny Rubin
On letterhead from Daniel Reeves & Co., a stock trading firm and New York Stock Exchange member. The partners' names appear on this letterhead, and of course, Rubin isn’t among them because he’s an actor and comedian. The letter it is grouped with is 1959, but this note has nothing other than specifying it as a Monday.
30 April (No year given, but it is grouped with the letter dated 1959)
My dear red-haired angel
I am here in NY since last week, and today I am flying to S.Frisco, where I have a show at I. Magnin.
Will stay there a few days ℅ Bryce Collins, 2209 Clay Street. Tel Fillmore 6-8850. Is any chance you get to S.Frisco
I would love immensely to see you
I hope we can arrange it.
Until then, my darling Agnese
A pesto e tanti baci
Tuo
Pierro
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