Lot 35
Birthday Collection of Celebrity Signatures
Collection of approximately 240 calendar pages from a 1984 desk calendar, each autographed with birthday greetings from well-known personalities from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sports, and business.
Collected by the consignor to celebrate the 76th birthday of his brother. He made a massive effort to send out individual pages from an old-fashioned business desk calendar to the widest variety of the famous of the day. Signatures range from Doris Day to Maria Tallchief, from Walter Annenberg to Linus Pauling, from Julia Child to Hank Greenberg, and include Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Henry (Hank) Aaron, Barbra Streisand, and Paul Newman.
From the consignor:
“It is a birthday gift that I had done for my older brother to celebrate his 75th birthday in February of 1984.”
“Early in 1983, I purchased a regular desk calendar of 1984, the kind which has a sheet for each day of the year. I wrote a short cover letter about my brother Jimmy and sent a copy with one sheet of the calendar to famous Americans from all sort of careers and lifestyles. I asked each of them to write a greeting to Jimmy for a Happy 75th Birthday and any comments they would wish to write on the sheet and put a self-addressed envelope with it. Fortunately within the next nine-month period, over 240 sheets were returned to me. As you can see with the list enclosed, they came from all aspects and professions of Americana. In fact the only non-American was that of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kurt Waldheim. Many of the comments with the birthday greetings were extraordinary.”
“It took almost nine months to complete and one of the secrets to getting this type of response was to get their home addresses, because if you sent it to their office or agents it would probably have gone into “file eleven”. Most of the personalities also wrote me side notes telling me how impressed they were with the idea of what “I was doing”. And it probably is the longest birthday card ever done.”
“My brother Jimmy died in 2002 and the collection was sent back to me by my sister-in-law. I am the last of six brothers, with one sister left.”
Johnny Bench
2-Jan
Rudy Vallee
4-Jan
Joseph Coors
5-Jan
Anne Baxter
5-Jan
Mickey Rooney
6-Jan
Itzhak Perlman
7-Jan
James Cagney
8-Jan
Jesse Jackson
9-Jan
Pearl Bailey
11-Jan
Dick Cavett
11-Jan
Julia Child
12-Jan
Melvin Belli
14-Jan
Walter Annenberg
14-Jan
Morey Amsterdam
15-Jan
Alvin Ailey
16-Jan
Harold Stassen
18-Jan
Willie Shoemaker
19-Jan
Howard Cosell
20-Jan
Louis Nizer
21-Jan
Dick Van Dyke
22-Jan
Herman Wouck
22-Jan
Elie Weisel
24-Jan
Averell Harriman
26-Jan
Art Buchwald
27-Jan
Oral Roberts
27-Jan
Philip Johnson
29-Jan
Bela Abzug
30-Jan
Leo Durocher
3-Feb
Rod McKuen
3-Feb
Barry Goldwater
4-Feb
Harry Blackstone
5-Feb
Mario Andretti
6-Feb
Joan Bennett
7-Feb
Diane Feinstein
8-Feb
Erma Bombeck
9-Feb
Victor Borge
10-Feb
David Brinkley
13-Feb
Lauren Bacall
15-Feb
Edward Teller
16-Feb
Mel Torme
20-Feb
Bob Lurie
22-Feb
Kate Smith
23-Feb
Kurt Waldheim
24-Feb
Henry Aaron
26-Feb
Joel McCrea
27-Feb
Candice Bergen
28-Feb
Father Theodore Hesburgh
29-Feb
Red Grange
2-Mar
Rupert Murdoch
3-Mar
Gerald Ford
4-Mar
Henry (Hank) Greenberg
6-Mar
Lee Iacocca
8-Mar
Ted Koppel
9-Mar
Kirk Douglas
10-Mar
Gene Kelly
11-Mar
Avery Fischer
12-Mar
Leonard Bernstein
13-Mar
Justice Harry Stevens
15-Mar
Jonas Salk
15-Mar
Ann Landers
16-Mar
Doris Day
17-Mar
Vivian Blaine
12-Mar
Linus Pauling
20-Mar
Kurt Vonnegut
21-Mar
Dorothy McGuire
22-Mar
Rocky Graziano
24-Mar
Deke Slayton
26-Mar
Eddie Albert
27-Mar
Strom Thurmond
29-Mar
Maria Tallchief
30-Mar
Sheldon Harnick
31-Mar
Frank Borman
1-Apr
Cesar Chavez
2-Apr
Frank Robinson
3-Apr
Barbra Streisand
4-Apr
James Stewart
5-Apr
Mary Martin
7-Apr
Justice Byron White
9-Apr
George Plimpton
10-Apr
Josh Logan
11-Apr
Red Auerbach
13-Apr
Anthony Quinn
14-Apr
Isaac Bashevis Singer
15-Apr
Samuel Hayakawa
17-Apr
Bette Davis
19-Apr
Jerry Falwell
21-Apr
Leon Hess
22-Apr
Kitty Carlisle Hart
22-Apr
Luciano Pavarotti
25-Apr
Carl Sagan
26-Apr
Gene Autry
30-Apr
Marvin Hamlisch
30-Apr
John Glenn
2-May
Charles Schultz
7-May
Arnold Palmer
8-May
Justice Potter Steward
10-May
William F. Buckley
14-May
Chub Feeney
16-May
Bill Dickey
17-May
General William Westmoreland
19-May
Anne Jackson
20-May
Eli Wallach
21-May
Albert (Happy)) Chandler
22-May
Vincent Price
24-May
Johnny Cash
24-May
Dorothy Hamill
25-May
William Safire
28-May
Art Linkletter
31-May
Joseph Kraft
2-Jun
Harry Morgan
4-Jun
Dina Merrill
7-Jun
Bud Schulberg
7-Jun
Alan Alda
8-Jun
Artie Shaw
10-Jun
Carl Hubbel
12-Jun
Robert Cummings
13-Jun
William Proxmire
15-Jun
Ralph Bellamy
16-Jun
Peter Wilson
22-Jun
June Allyson
26-Jun
Bill Hannah
26-Jun
Ray Bolger
27-Jun
Charley Gehringer
29-Jun
George Deukmejian
29-Jun
Henny Youngman
30-Jun
Alan Cranston
2-Jul
Edward I. Koch
3-Jul
Walter Matthau
4-Jul
Robert Merrill
5-Jul
Justice Sandra Day O'Conner
6-Jul
George Abbott
8-Jul
Stan Musial
9-Jul
Lee MacPhail
12-Jul
George Shearing
16-Jul
Bill Veeck
18-Jul
Estelle Parsons
19-Jul
Mildred Natwick
20-Jul
Jack Nicklaus
22-Jul
Loretta Lynn
23-Jul
Al Goldstein
24-Jul
Fred Silverman
26-Jul
Tommy La Sorda
26-Jul
Earl Wilson
27-Jul
Jack Lemon
29-Jul
Philip Habib
1-Aug
Earl Blackwell
2-Aug
George Burns
3-Aug
Gloria Steinem
5-Aug
Carol Burnett
6-Aug
Alan King
8-Aug
Edward Albee
9-Aug
Don Rickles
11-Aug
Henry Ford II
14-Aug
Edward Asner
14-Aug
Barbara Walters
15-Aug
Isaac Asimov
17-Aug
Jack Anderson
16-Aug
Dr. Denton Cooley
18-Aug
Joan Baez
19-Aug
Jose Ferrar
23-Aug
Norman Cousins
25-Aug
Joseph Cotton
27-Aug
Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby)
28-Aug
Theodor White
20-Aug
Stanley Kramer
2-Sep
Marlin Perkins
4-Sep
General James Doolittle
5-Sep
Johnny Carson
7-Sep
Rodney Dangerfeld
6-Sep
Thomas 'Tip' O'Neil
8-Sep
Pauline Tregiere
9-Sep
Arthur Goldberg
14-Sep
Johnny Mize
17-Sep
William Kunstler
18-Sep
Lady Bird Johnson
10-Sep
Phil Esposito
19-Sep
Helen Gurley Brown
20-Sep
Eddie Arcaro
21-Sep
Lane Kirkland
22-Sep
Roger Maris
24-Sep
Judith Crist
25-Sep
Danny Kaye
26-Sep
Milton Berle
27-Sep
HJ Heinz
29-Sep
George Gallup Jr
30-Sep
Bowie Kuhn
2-Oct
Sidney Poitier
3-Oct
Joann Woodward
5-Oct
Paul Newman
6-Oct
Liberace
7-Oct
Yousef Karsh
11-Oct
Pete Rozelle
12-Oct
Alice Faye
13-Oct
Phil Harris
14-Oct
Irving Howe
15-Oct
Ted Williams
16-Oct
Lillian Gish
17-Oct
Warren Spahn
20-Oct
Bob Hope
21-Oct
Jan Murray
24-Oct
Wilt Chamberlain
25-Oct
Glen Seaborg
25-Oct
Dr. Michael DeBakey
26-Oct
Milton Eisenhower
26-Oct
Paulette Goddard
28-Oct
Billy Conn
29-Oct
Rev Norman Vincent Peale
31-Oct
Beverly Sills
1-Nov
Jessica Tandy
2-Nov
Frank Sinatra
3-Nov
Tom Landry
4-Nov
Herb Caen
5-Nov
Bill Blass
8-Nov
Charles Hamilton
9-Nov
Bobby Riggs
10-Nov
Otto Preminger
11-Nov
Leroy Nieman
12-Nov
Greer Garson
13-Nov
Helen Hayes
16-Nov
Dr. Joyce Brothers
17-Nov
Sandy Koufax
19-Nov
Malcomb Forbes
20-Nov
Alistair Cooke
23-Nov
Joe DiMaggio
28-Nov
Ginger Rogers
29-Nov
Sammy Cahn
30-Nov
Rev William Sloan Coffin
3-Dec
Bronco Nagurski
6-Dec
Fred Mac Murray
7-Dec
Dick Clark
7-Dec
Walter Alston
10-Dec
Cesar Romero
11-Dec
August Busch
15-Dec
Sammy Snead
17-Dec
Shirley Temple
18-Dec
Bill Moyers
21-Dec
Edo DeWaart
22-Dec
Ben Bradlee
24-Dec
Perry Como
25-Dec
Paul Harvey
26-Dec
David Rockefeller
28-Dec
Julie Harris
29-Dec
Theodor Bickel
30-Dec
Estimate: $10,000 - $20,000