Lot 68 ROALD DAHL SIGNED LETTER TO WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY PRODUCER DAVID WOLPER.
ROALD DAHL SIGNED LETTER TO WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY PRODUCER DAVID WOLPER. - (Paramount, 1971) Original
Typed Letter Signed from author Roald Dahl to David Wolper, producer of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The one-page letter, dated December
21, 1971, discusses Dahl’s desire “of getting some of those ghastly songs cut from ‘Willy Wonka’” and vents his frustrations at not being heard
during the production. (In part): “I refer particularly to the opening number ‘The Candy Man’ and the one in the middle that puts the break on everything,
‘Cheer Up Charlie’. The English reviews have just come out and we got a good press but almost without exception they regret the music...Bobby Newman tells
me that he gave instructions for the cutting of the two worst songs on all the prints we have here in England. This was not done. Nor apparently has anything
been done about the American prints for the showing this Christmas…With the stake I still have in this picture I feel I am entitled at this stage to express an
opinion and to have it listened to. Not many of my opinions have been listened to up to now. Do let me know what you think. Yours sincerely, R.” At the top
of the letter Dahl has penned the following to the attention of Robert Newman: “Bobby – I trust he will reply to me himself This Time. R.” From
the collection of Robert Newman, Location and Financial Advisor for Wolper Pictures, Ltd.
Typed Letter Signed from author Roald Dahl to David Wolper, producer of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The one-page letter, dated December
21, 1971, discusses Dahl’s desire “of getting some of those ghastly songs cut from ‘Willy Wonka’” and vents his frustrations at not being heard
during the production. (In part): “I refer particularly to the opening number ‘The Candy Man’ and the one in the middle that puts the break on everything,
‘Cheer Up Charlie’. The English reviews have just come out and we got a good press but almost without exception they regret the music...Bobby Newman tells
me that he gave instructions for the cutting of the two worst songs on all the prints we have here in England. This was not done. Nor apparently has anything
been done about the American prints for the showing this Christmas…With the stake I still have in this picture I feel I am entitled at this stage to express an
opinion and to have it listened to. Not many of my opinions have been listened to up to now. Do let me know what you think. Yours sincerely, R.” At the top
of the letter Dahl has penned the following to the attention of Robert Newman: “Bobby – I trust he will reply to me himself This Time. R.” From
the collection of Robert Newman, Location and Financial Advisor for Wolper Pictures, Ltd.
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