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Up for sale a RARE! “The Sound of Music” Vincent J. Donehue 1.25X4.25 Clipped Signature. Donehue died at 50 years old and while alive was not known for signing items which make this his signature EXTREMELY RARE!
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Vincent Julian Donehue (September
22, 1915 – January 17, 1966) was an American director noted mainly for his
theater work, with occasional film and television credits. Vincent Donehue was
born in Whitehall, New York. He
was a graduate of the Christian Brothers Academy and the New York State
Teachers' College, now University at Albany, both
in Albany, New York. He
served in the Army Air Force for 5 years. His early theatre credits
include playing the role of Cinna the
Poet in the Mercury Theatre's 1938 touring production as
director include The Trip to Gish, Jo Van Fleet and Eva Marie Saint, The Traveling Lady (1954)
with Kim Stanley, Tennessee Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (1955)
with Maureen Stapleton, Sunrise at Campobello (1958)
which won him the Tony Award for Best
Direction, the Richard
Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The Sound of Music (1959)
starring Mary Martin, which earned
him another Tony nomination, Daughter of with Charles Boyer and Agnes Moorehead, Jennie (1963) with Mary Martin and Catch Me if You Can.
He also restaged the 1954 Mary Martin Peter Pan for
television in 1960, the third telecast of the Broadway stage musical. His film credits include Lonelyhearts (1958) with Montgomery Clift, Robert Ryan and Myrna Loy and Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
which won Greer Garson the Golden Globe for Best Actress and several Academy Award nominations. The film was also entered into
the 2nd Moscow
International Film Festival. He directed television plays in the
1950s. He died in New York of Hodgkin's disease, age 50.
