TLS signed “Cecil B. deMille,” one page, 8.5 x 11, Cecil B. DeMille Productions letterhead, no date but postmarked November 14, 1942. Letter to Paul W. Young in New York, in full: "As this is the first time I've ever had a price on my head, it is also the first time that I ever promised the public something I couldn't deliver. When, after placing a price of $5,000,000 in war bonds on Veronica Lake's famous forelock, I asked if anyone in the Lux Radio Theatre audience would care to buy a ten cent war stamp for a lock of my own hair, I didn't accept such an avalanche of 'takers.' The mail orders are heaped high on my desk. And it takes no more than a glance in the mirror to convince me that I have been caught, as it were, with my hair down. But I am willing to do the best I can. How many hairs make a lock is, of course, a moot question anyway, so I enclose a single hair to assure you of my good intentions. Even at this rate, I doubt if I shall have enough single hairs to go around, and may have to resort to the installment plan—i.e., give my sparse locks time to renew themselves after the first shearing in order to accumulate enough hair to pay off the balance of my creditors. I only regret that I have so few hairs to give for my country." Affixed to the upper left corner are a ten-cent war stamp, patriotic ribbon, and single strand of deMille's hair. Mounted along with the original mailing envelope and framed to an overall size of 12 x 16.5. In fine condition. Robert Shelton's Old Tucson Studios Collection
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