[Rarebooks] FS: FDR Inscribed to Screenwriter Carey Wilson, co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

[Charles Agvent]

[ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.] WILSON, Carey. THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY PARTY 
BROADCAST. First Edition. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") bound in full 
gilt-lettered red morocco leather; 12 pages. An ORIGINAL typed Andy 
Hardy radio script by Carey Wilson that followed the birthday broadcast 
for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1939. This copy is INSCRIBED 
to Wilson and SIGNED by Roosevelt on the last page. Laid down to a front 
blank page is a letter from the Secretary to the President, Stephen 
Early, on White House stationary dated 7 February 1939: "This is by way 
of acknowledging your letter to me under date of January thirty-first, 
with enclosed script of the Hardy Family program which followed the 
President's Birthday Address on the air. I am happy to advise you that 
the President has signed a copy of your manuscript by name and has asked 
me to forward it to you with an expression of his best wishes." Not only 
a rare script from the Andy Hardy legacy but a truly unique Presidential 
item. Minor wear. About Fine.

Carey Wilson, one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture 
Arts and Sciences, was a writer, narrator, and producer. His many 
screenwriting credits include BEN HUR and MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY for which 
he was nominated for an Oscar. As a producer he contributed to the rise 
of many notable screen stars including Lana Turner, Mickey Rooney, Judy 
Garland, Esther Williams, Margaret O'Brien, and Red Skelton. His films 
included THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, GREEN DOLPHIN STREET, and 
SCARAMOUCHE. Wilson is perhaps best known, however, as the creator of 
the film series DR. KILDARE and ANDY HARDY (played by Mickey Rooney), 
said to be the most successful and most popular film series ever made in 
the United States. Wilson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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