LETTER: Autograph letter signed, to Miss Mary Ethel McAuley.
Best Actress Marie Dressler Autograph Letter Signed at End of WWI. With envelope bearing a 12 December 1919 postmark, addressed in her hand to Miss Mary Ethel McAuley. 2pp. letter on 2 sheets measures 8.5" x 11". Toning to edges and a paper clip impression to the first sheet, else near fine.
Dressler was a star of the silent era and won the Best Actress Oscar in 1931; prior to this, she was a blacklisted stage performer in New York during the actors strike, a target of theater producers as President of the Chorus Equity Association. She refers to this pivotal time in her career here, on Hotel La Salle stationery:
"...Have the chorus girls been maligned? Today your question is easily answered - yes & no - my intense desire to help my country in the last four years kept me out of the theatrical profession & in the interim many have snuck in that should be snucked out...if...the public could just get an insight into their real lives it would put to shame many an household sheltering the so called better classes...Marie Dressler".
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