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Lot #742
Walter E. Kline Advertising Archive: Hollywood Stars Promote Remington Rand Typewriters (1936)

Estimate: $300+

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Archive of documents and correspondence relating to the work of pioneering Hollywood publicist Walter E. Kline, including seven TLSs by Kline, totaling 14 pages, 8.5 x 11, dated from January–September 1936. Kline oversees a national corporate advertising campaign for Remington Rand Typewriters using the era's biggest movie stars, naming Dick Powell, Ann Rutherford, Elaine Shepard, Tala Birell, Joan Bennett, Florence Rice, Charles Ray, Robert Kent, Jack Luden, Joel McCrea, Leo Tracy, Gene Autry, and Betty Burgess as participants. In overall very good to fine condition, with rust paperclip marks to top edges.

From the collection of Gerda Robison, who worked as a story researcher and stenographer for Disney in the 1940s and 50s. She authored the book Dark Lady, and later served as Cecil Beaton's assistant on My Fair Lady.

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