NIVEN DAVID: (1910-1983) British actor, Academy Award winner. T.L.S., David Niven, with holograph sa

NIVEN DAVID: (1910-1983) British actor, Academy Award winner. T.L.S., David Niven, with holograph sa

NIVEN DAVID: (1910-1983) British actor, Academy Award winner. T.L.S., David Niven, with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, 4to, Hollywood, California, 19^th February 1959, to Eric Williams, on the printed stationery of Four Star Films Inc. Niven thanks his correspondent for having sent them a copy of Dragoman Pass ('It reached me just before I took off to fly over the Pole') and continues to remark that he will read it as soon as he can now that he is back in California. Together with a carbon typed copy of Williams's letter to Niven, one page, 4to, Riseley, Bedfordshire, 10^th February 1959, stating, in part, 'You do not know me but you may have read my escape story The Wooden Horse. My latest book Dragoman Pass would, I think, also make a good film and I can think of no one better for the role of Roger Starte than yourself. Obviously the film could not be made in Rumania or Bulgaria, but there are the right kinds of monks, monasteries, peasants and landscape in Greece - and of course the sun…..Should you be interested in making the film, my English publishers Messrs Collins are acting as my agents. I say this because I am leaving England at the end of this month on a Land-Rover tour round the world (taking rather more than 80 days!). With very best wishes for the success of Separate Tables'. Two file holes to the left edge of each letter, not affecting the text or signatures. About VG, 2

 

Eric Williams (1911-1983) English writer and former RAF pilot and prisoner-of-war during World War II whose most famous novel was The Wooden Horse (1949), made into a movie of the same name the following year.