![]() ![]() Mel Brooks' screenplay for "The Twelve Chairs" was based on an English translation by Mudie of the novel "Sitting on Diamonds" by Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov. She translated and edited, with Elizabeth Hill, "The Letters of Dostoyevsky to His Wife" and "The Letters of Lenin". I gathered much information political and economic while there and subsequently in the enemy states Austria Germany and Hungary".Doris Mudie was a British author and translator. Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century. "During 1920 I had recourse to travel over all the European belligerent states and to administer relief in the new Republic of Czecho-Slovakia. Mudie writes to the editor of the New York World asking about the possibility of setting up an American lecture tour about the postwar condition of Central Europe. Together with a carbon copy of the recipient's typed reply. There are several pin pricks to the top left corner & 2 small tears in the address have been repaired. The date of reply to the letter has been stamped below the address & there is a small tear to the top edge & another to the left edge of the letter. SIGNED PLAYBILL- The Producers by Brooks, Mel Thomas Meehan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Mudie has inserted "Library" after "Mudie's" in the heading, and has added "England" to the address. Letter penned in black ink & filling one side of a sheet of "Mudie's Manchester Limited" 8 inch high by 5 inch wide cream letterhead. ![]()
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