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2d0226 ONCE UPON A MATTRESS signed stage play souvenir program book +letter '60s by Coca AND Donovan

Date Sold 10/25/2015
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An Original Vintage Autographed Stage Play Souvenir Program Book (measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 20 pages). Also included is a signed letter. (Learn More)

Once Upon a Mattress, the circa 1960s stage play production starring Imogene Coca, Edward Everett Horton, King Donovan (Imogene Coca's real-life husband!), Paul Cambeilh, Pat Foley, and David Starkey. If anyone knows more about this stage play, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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Important Added Info: Note that the program book has been personally autographed (signed) by BOTH Imogene Coca AND King Donovan, and there is also a handwritten letter signed by Imogene Coca (it has nice content, and she mentions that she had never seen this program, and that she had her husband, King Donovan, sign it by his picture as well. She goes on to say "We had a ball doing that show and it was a very special time for us, and we married the day before the show opened".

Note that this item was consigned to us by an individual who owned a company that made movies and videos with famous celebrities in the 1980s and 1990s. The owner of the company would have the celebrities sign items from their famous films, and he also had correspondence with many famous celebrities which he saved. In addition, he would sometimes ask celebrities he came in contact with if they had signed items from other stars that they would sell to him, and he purchased a number of items that way. He also would purchase unsigned items from the famed Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los Angeles or from other reputable Hollywood book stores and poster shops (to have the celebrities sign), and while he was doing that he would also purchase some of their signed items. So all of these autographed items we are auctioning were either obtained in person, obtained from celebrities who obtained them in person, or obtained from reputable Hollywood book stores, and we feel certain that the autograph(s) on this item is authentic (as is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning), and we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction.

Condition: good to very good.
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