[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Early Photograph of Harry Belafonte

[Charles Agvent]

BELAFONTE, Harry. PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED. . An 8" x 10" photo of Belafonte 
with his business manager, Jay Kennedy, and another man, apparently 
producer Sidney Buchman, Kennedy's partner, at a restaurant table from 
the early to mid-1950s. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Belafonte to Kennedy: 
"Dad! Dad!! Dad!!! On this day we released ourselves to further pursue 
the course we have chosen for ourselves. To you I'm indebted to Sidney 
I'm grateful, and perhaps History will thank us all. Your Harry." Also 
INSCRIBED by Buchman: "To Jay, a gentleman, Sidney." In 1954 Belafonte 
replaced Jack Rollins with Jay Kennedy as his manager who, with his 
connections, was able to book Belafonte in more prestigious locations. 
Despite Belafonte's effusive inscription, he would later come to 
distrust Kennedy and even considered him malevolent. It was not until a 
decade later that Belafonte would discover that Dr Janet Alterman 
Kennedy, the psychotherapist he had been confiding in during the 1950s, 
was Jay Kennedy's wife. Ink occasionally light but still very readable. 
Fine.
Belafonte, one of the world's most popular entertainers starring not 
only in music but in the theater and film as well, was also the first, 
and for some time the only, black producer in television and the first 
African American to receive an Emmy award. (#019810)        $500

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/019810/harry-belafonte/photograph-signed

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