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"Wuthering Heights" (1938) - Hollywood Adaptation
Fitzgerald (Geraldine) Actress. A small Archive including her personal copy, inscribed with her name, of the shooting script for the Hollywood adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" (1938), in which she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Isabella. Cyclostyled typescript with studio stamp, 140pp stapled. With a collection of original manuscript songs and lyrics probably by her first husband, Edward Lindsay-Hogg, with whom she moved to New York in 1938, a typed letter signed "Algy", with a selection of printed music some with signature of Katherine Cadell. As an Archive, w.a.f. Rare.
* Geraldine Fitzgerald was a daughter of a Dublin solicitor William Fitzgerald, whose firm is said to be mentioned in Joyce's "Ulysses." She began her stage career at Dublin's Gate Theatre in the early 1930's, where she acted with Oscar Wells, and also appeared in several films. After her marriage she moved to New York, where she appeared on Broadway in the production of Shaws "Heartbreak House," and took the part of Isabella in William Wyler's version of "Wuthering Heights," for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress award. She signed with Warner Brothers, and appeared in major films including "Watch on the Rhine," (1943), but was often side lined due to disagreement with the studio. In 1946 she and Edward Lindsay Hogg divorced, (they had one son, the director Michael Lindsay Hogg), and she married Stuart Scheftel, a grandson of one of the owners of R.H. Macy's Store. She resumed her Broadway career in several important productions of Eugene O'Neill's plays. In the 1960's she founded the Everyman Street Theatre, took voice lessons and became a cabaret artist, as well as continuing to take character parts on stage. She died in 2005, aged 91. (1)
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