Eleanor Summerfield Actress Headed Paper 1956 Hand Signed Antique Letter

CHAU1856  Antique 1950s hand signed letter from historic actress Eleanor Summerfield on her official headed paper to a TV Times former editor (whose collection I am selling) . It is personally signed making this surely the greatest autograph opportunity you will find of Eleanor Summerfield, bar folded twice where originally posted (which is how I will send), and some milder edge places is very good condition.  Having the autograph on the cult actresses home headed paper is the ultimate for lifetime COA.  

Eleanor Summerfield was born in London on March 7, 1921, initially trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1937). The hard-looking, blue-eyed blonde began in films in 1947 but created some waves first on stage opposite Cicely Courtneidge in "Her Excellency" at the London Hippodrome in 1949. She followed that with a top role in a rather mediocre musical entitled "Golden City." Musicals would be a strong suit for her in the ensuing years, including a more glamorous role in "When in Rome" (1959) alongside June Laverick. Summerfield made her last West End musical in 1974 in a show based on the cartoon characters of Osbert Lancaster. A popular radio actress and a regular on BBC Radio Four panel show "Many a Slip," she positively shone on TV in a number of comedy series as she entered her matronly years. She had the difficult task of replacing Dora Bryan in the established program "Our Dora" when Bryan abruptly left the series after the sudden death of her first child. Soon retitled My Wife's Sister (1956), the show, and Summerfield, succeeded quite well. During her five-decade career, she added bite to a number of films, often raucous comedies, including Laughter in Paradise (1951), Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop (1953), Dentist in the Chair (1960), On the Fiddle (1961) and Some Will, Some Won't (1970), which was a remake of the earlier film Laughter in Paradise (1951). She died on July 13, 2001, in London. She was 80