LOT Vtg 8x10 Black & White Photographs GODSPELL Musical Cast Theater Memorabilia

Description

LOT of 10 vintage black and white photographs - GODSPELL Musical
Theater memorabilia
Size: 8x10
Photos are in overall good condition.  Some of them have pin holes in each corner from being hung on wall with thumbtacks.
Additional information:
These photos were found at the Roger Mayer Estate, and it appears that his daughter Patty Mayer may have been the director of this play, but I cannot say that for certain.  Roger Mayer is a Hollywood Film Executive.  See below for additional information on him.
From the estate of
Roger Mayer
~ a Hollywood Film Industry Executive
All items belonging to Roger Mayer were obtained at his estate sale in Los Angeles California that was held after his passing. The estate sale was held after his family obtained what they wanted to keep…the rest of the items were graciously made available by his family for other people to enjoy.
These items can be enjoyed simply for their beauty, or they can be enjoyed and treasured as part of history from a gentleman that had a huge impact on the entertainment industry.
Because of Roger Mayer’s lifelong contributions to such an important industry, we have decided to give a portion of our proceeds back to a charitable cause that we believe in…our United States Armed Forces!!
For those of you that are interested in some history on Roger Mayer, I have included a portion of his biography and awards directly copied and pasted from Wikipedia below:
Biography[edit]
Mayer was born in Manhattan. He attended the Horace Mann School.[1] After serving in World War II, he received his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1948, and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1951. He moved to Los Angeles and sought a position at one of the city's major downtown law firms, but was rejected, being told that those firms didn't hire Jews.[2] He was eventually hired as a lawyer at Columbia Pictures, where he worked for nine years. He then moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (He is not related to MGM founder Louis B. Mayer.) He established an early film preservation program at the studio, at a time when such efforts were not seen as financially rewarding, and eventually rose to become President of MGM Laboratories.[3]
In 1986 Mayer became president and chief executive of Turner Entertainment.[3] In that position, he was responsible for managing the large library of motion pictures that Ted Turner had purchased from MGM, including high-profile restorations and re-releases of landmark MGM films like Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz,[4] as well as being a focus of controversy when he supported Ted Turner's decision to colorize some old black-and-white films in the library.[3]
Mayer became a founder and chair of the National Film Preservation Foundation in 1996. In that capacity, he was credited with enabling the preservation of more than 2,000 orphan films, films whose original copyright had expired or otherwise lacked commercial potential sufficient to pay for their preservation. He also sat on the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress.[5] In addition, Mayer also served as chairman of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, an industry charity that provides healthcare and social services.[6]
Awards[edit]
Mayer, Rick Schmidlin, and Turner Classic Movies shared a 1999 special citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for their role in the "re-creation and presentation" of the 1924 film Greed (film) directed by Erich Von Stroheim.[7] The Hollywood Film Awards honored Mayer for his preservation work in 2003.[8] In 2004 Mayer won an Emmy Award for the TV documentary Judy Garland: By Myself, which he executive produced for American Masters.
In 2005, Mayer was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in recognition of his efforts for film preservation and for the Motion Picture & Television Fund.[9] At the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, Mayer's Hersholt Award was presented by film director Martin Scorsese, who had been one of Mayer's critics on the colorization issue, but who praised Mayer for his preservation work.[5]
(43a-2-PFR)