[FILM HISTORY] Richard F. Walsh (1900-1992) Union President

Description: [FILM HISTORY] Richard F. Walsh (1900-1992) Union President. He entered the entertainment industry as an apprentice electrician at Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Theatre in 1917. Mr. Walsh was elected President of Local No. 4 in 1925, and Business Agent of the same local in 1926. After serving in the capacity of Business Agent until 1938, he was again elected to the position of President of the local from 1940, serving in that position through 1959. Meanwhile, Mr. Walsh was elected as an International Vice President in 1934. In 1941, he became International President of the Alliance, a position he was re-elected to through 1974 when he retired from office. During Mr. Walsh's tenure as International President, he was elected a Vice President of the AFL-CIO in 1955. He was also President of the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department, Chairman of the AFL-CIO Committee on Safety and Occupational Health, President of the Inter-American Federation of Entertainment Workers, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Inc., and Director of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company, as well as the Council of Motion Picture Organization. Offered here is a rare signed contract (signed on page 23), 1965 between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and Canada AND the Theatrical Fim Producers, Television Film Producers & Mirisch-Rich Productions. This agreement in 24 pages in length and is also signed on page 24 by Milton Ebbins, Vice President ofd Chrislaw Productions Inc. MILTON EBBINS(1912-2008) talent manager of jazz greats and a Kennedy administration and Rat Pack insider, composer. Ebbins started his career in the early 1930s as a trumpet player and bandleader. He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years. Ebbins’ partnership with Lawford — who was married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia— brought him into close association with The Rat Pack and the Kennedy Clan. Ebbins produced many of his clients’ film and television projects and was partnered in a company with Lawford that produced TV series, “The Patty Duke Show.” He associate produced the 1950s TV series’ “The Thin Man” starring Lawford and Phyllis Kirk. He also produced two films starring Rat Packers Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. — “Salt and Pepper” (1968) and “One More Time” (1970). He helped set up the original Rat Packer film, “Ocean’s Eleven” and subsequently “Sergeants 3.” He was also involved in the production of “The Longest Day.” Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination. RARE!

Price: 25 USD

Location: Wells, Maine

End Time: 2024-12-14T22:35:22.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.8 USD