An archive of letters, original candid photographs, and several letters collected by celebrity photographer Frank Teti over the course of his career. Teti, who was active in the 1960s and 1970s, is best known for his work with the Kennedy family as well as Barbra Streisand. The archive includes a TLS, signed “Jacqueline Onassis," one page, 5.25 x 7.5, dated October 8, 1974, thanking Teti, "for your kindness in sending me the photographs from the Robert F. Kennedy tennis tournament. Caroline and John were both so pleased to see the pictures and they will always be a wonderful reminder of their day at Forest Hills." Also included are two letters from Senator Ted Kennedy, one letter to Teti's mother offering her his condolences on the occasion of Frank's untimely death, dated April 29, 1988, in part: “Frank was an excellent photographer whose work we admired, and his work is a magnificent legacy of which you can be most proud. The members of my family particularly enjoyed his book about the new generation of Kennedys. It was very well done—with warmth and integrity—and I was happy to be asked to write the preface for it. It has become a very valuable reference and I have given it as gifts on my trips to foreign countries. It was received with great pleasure." The other letter from Ted Kennedy, dated November 2, 1983, in which he offers his condolences to Teti on the loss of his father, appears to be signed with an autopen.
The archive also features 30 candid photographs taken by Teti, with a superb set of 25 3.5 x 5 color prints. The most interesting is a candid shot of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the rear of a limousine. The collection also includes a superb candid 8 x 10 shot of Marlon Brando, a marvelous candid color photo of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis taken on the Island of Capri in the late 1960s, and great shots of Ann-Margret, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Buzzi, Kim Novak, Carol Lawrence and Robert Goulay, and others.
The collection also features 89 signatures on 3 x 5 cards (many with small magazine photographs affixed at one corner), including Steve McQueen, John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock (with self-portrait sketch), The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly-Joe), Natalie Wood (2), Robert Wagner, Mickey Mantle, Janet Leigh, Zina Bethune, Mary Tyler Moore, Suzanne Pleshette, Yul Brynner, Paul Newman, Raymond Burr (2), Cary Grant, Donna Reed, Sophia Loren, E. G. Marshall, Tony Curtis (2), Carol Burnett, Greer Garson, Van Heflin, Hope Lang, Myrna Loy, Peter Lorre, Bert Lahr, Peter Lawford, Rosalind Russell, Agnes Moorehead, Rod Serling, Sal Mineo, Jayne Mansfield, Leonard Bernstein, Bobby Darin, Kate Smith, Lawrence Welk, Jane Seberg, Edward G. Robinson, Franchot Tone, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Joe E. Brown, Rita Hayworth, Jack Benny, Ann Harding, Carroll Baker, Lucille Ball ("Love Lucy") Joan Crawford, Lorne Greene, Jane Fonda, Richard Boone, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Clint Eastwood, Troy Donahue, Tippi Hedren, Milton Berle, Patty Duke, Michael Walker, Van Cliburn (2), Warren Beatty, Beverly Garland, Lena Horne, Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Peter Falk, Susan Strausberg, Sidney Potier, Dina Merrell, Donald O'Connor, Shelley Winters, Betty White, Gene Simmons, Burt Reynolds, Walter Pidgeon, Barbara Stanwyck, Luise Rainer, Debbie Reynolds, Jane Withers (2), Harriet Nelson, Ozzie Nelson, Sid Luckmann (an off-color variant of his signature), and Darren McGavin.
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