Amusing TLS signed “Sid P.,” one page, 8.5 x 11, November 12, 1947. Letter to “Swanie,” his literary agent H. N. Swanson, in full: “Thanks for your note, which, since it was written on your old-time deckle-edged cream stock and not on a scrap of butcher's wrapping paper, I take to mean that you are still putting up a front in the teeth of the widely-advertised Hollywood retrenchment. I also take it that your fleet-footed and trusty outriders are continuing to bear down in my behalf wherever the opportunity presents. Can I suggest, in this connection, that it might be worth working on Arthur Freed at Metro? I am an old friend of Vincente Minnelli's there; Freed knows my work also, and one of them may have something on the tapis that could use my spidery touch.
As regards the fee, I don't think we ought to shoot for a bracket that might be considered prohibitive, and I'm wondering if, with no fresh movie credits, we could get as much as the $1500. you speak of. Personally I shall be content to settle for a grand, or if necessary, a bit less. The important factor is getting an assignment; my back-log is pretty well depleted and I am very sincere in repeating that if you can set me somewhere, I intend to base myself in Hollywood for a long time to come.
Not only do I cut my hair by mail—I make my trousers hang straight with that new patented appliance, I breathe filtered air with two little cheese-cloth strainers invisible to the eye, I have banished the tobacco habit in five days, cleared up psoriasis, mastered public speaking, and howled over six breezy real-life fotos of Paris art models. Aren't you sorry you went to Grinnell instead of Brown?” In fine condition.
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