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Brighton Beach Memoirs, the 1983 - 1986 Gene Saks Broadway stage play comedy (written by Neil Simon) starring Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth Franz, Peter Michael Goetz, Mandy Ingber, Zeljko Ivanek, Jodi Thelen, and Joyce Van Patten

Important Added Info: Note that this item has been personally autographed (signed) by SIX people: Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth Franz, Joyce Van Patten, Zeljko Ivanek, Mandy Ingber, and Peter Michael Goetz. Note that our consignor has a funny story about this playbill and the autographs. He sent it to Matthew Broderick, who was just beginning his career with this important role and the impending release of Max Dugan Returns in theaters, but he was not yet known at all nationally. He must have been very happy to get this fan request for his signature, because not only did he sign it himself, but he also went to the other cast members and got five of them to sign also. Our consignor wrote to him again a few years later, when he was now a big star, and he received back a "signed" photo that was clearly secretarial, and he realized that Mr. Broderick was likely now too big a star to answer his own fan mail (and he trashed the photo, because he only collected signatures he felt were surely authentic), but back in 1983, Mr. Broderick went to all this effort on this playbill (which might have been one of the first autograph requests he received through the mail!).

Note that this autographed item is part of a remarkable collection. In our last two all-signed auctions, we auctioned hundreds of items from this collection and now we are auctioning 211 more items (mostly 8x10 stills and repro 8x10s, but also 58 other items like playbills and more)!
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a teacher who taught a film class, and he also part-time ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s, he wrote to famous celebrities, and enclosed an 8x10 still or repro (or sometimes another item) from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star.
     He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them.
     In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the late 1970s or 1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor!
     He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves.

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, 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. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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