SIGNED actress ZOE CALDWELL photo to actress/singer/comedienne KAYE BALLARD

Description

The estate of the late entertainer, Kaye Ballard (1925-2019) is putting up for auction several items of memorabilia and personal items that were in Ms. Ballard's possession in her home at the time of her passing. Signatures are original and not reproductions. Watermarks that appear in the photo(s) are not on the actual item.
Actress
ZOE CALDWELL
and producer
BOB WHITEHEAD
signed black & white photo inscribed to actress/singer/comedienne Kaye Ballard
A signed black & white 8" x 10" (approx) photo of actress Zoe Caldwell and her husband, producer Bob Whitehead, presented to actress/singer/comedienne, Kaye Ballard with the inscription, signed in silver ink (Sharpie):
Kaye - dear Kaye / our love to you / always.. always / Zoe & Bob
Photo is in a plastic case/frame that was displayed on Kaye's "wall of celebrity friends" in her home in Rancho Mirage, CA. (See photos for images of exact placement on Kaye's wall.) Photo was removed from case, scanned, replaced, and is in very good condition. See photos for detail. A Certificate of Authenticity issued by the Kaye Ballard Estate will be included
upon request.
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ABOUT ZOE CALDWELL
Zoe Ada Caldwell
, OBE (14 September 1933 – 16 February 2020) was an Australian-born actress. She was a four-time Tony Award winner, winning Best Featured Actress in a Play for
Slapstick Tragedy
(1966), and Best Actress in a Play for
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(1968),
Medea
(1982), and
Master Class
(1996). Her film appearances include
The Purple Rose of Cairo
(1985),
Birth
(2004), and
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
(2011).
She was also known for providing the voice of the Grand Councilwoman in the
Lilo & Stitch
franchise and in
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
.
Caldwell was born in Melbourne. Caldwell’s mother often took some of the neighbourhood kids to the Elizabethan Theatre in Richmond where they could go backstage and watch rehearsals and performances. Caldwell began her career in Melbourne in the 1950s and early 1960s, performing with the newly formed Union Theatre Repertory Company (later the Melbourne Theatre Company).
She emigrated to England upon being invited to join the RSC at a time when Charles Laughton was attempting Lear, and Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins, Albert Finney were among the other newcomers in the company. She played Bianca in the 1959 production of
Othello
, starring Paul Robeson. Later she played the indomitable Helena, opposite Dame Edith Evans in a production of
All’s Well That Ends Well
. Her career later brought her to the United States, where she was one of the original company of actors under Guthrie’s direction at the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. At the Guthrie, she played parts such as Ophelia in
Hamlet
and Natasha in
Three Sisters
.
A life member of the Actors Studio, Caldwell won four Tony Awards for her performances on Broadway in Tennessee Williams’
Slapstick Tragedy
,
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
,
Medea
and
Master Class
. In the last she portrayed opera diva Maria Callas. In Stratford, Ontario she appeared often, including her role as Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s
Antony and Cleopatra
opposite Christopher Plummer’s Mark Antony in 1967.
Her other credits on Broadway include Arthur Miller’s
The Creation of the World and Other Business
in which she played Eve, a one-woman play by William Luce based on the life of Lillian Hellman and a production of
Macbeth
with Christopher Plummer as Macbeth and Glenda Jackson as Lady Macbeth under Caldwell’s direction. Caldwell directed, Off-Broadway, a two-woman play, created by Eileen Atkins,
Vita and Virginia
, based on the letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Atkins played Virginia and Vanessa Redgrave played Vita. Caldwell directed the Broadway production of
Othello
in the late 1970s with James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, and Dianne Wiest. She helmed the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut for two limited-run seasons as its Artistic Director in the mid-1980s.
Caldwell also performed on film, most notably as an imperious dowager in Woody Allen’s
The Purple Rose of Cairo
. She voiced the character of the Grand Councilwoman in Disney’s
Lilo & Stitch
, and continued voicing the character in the franchise’s later films and in
Lilo & Stitch: The Series
, as well as in
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
. In 2011, she acted in
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
.
Caldwell graduated from Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew and, much later, received an honorary degree from the University of Melbourne. In 1968, she married Canadian-born Broadway producer Robert Whitehead, a cousin of actor Hume Cronyn. They had two sons and were married until Whitehead’s death in June 2002.
In 1970, Caldwell was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by The Queen.
Caldwell died in Pound Ridge, New York on 16 February 2020, aged 86, of complications from Parkinson’s disease.
ABOUT BOB WHITEHEAD
Robert Whitehead
(March 3, 1916 – June 15, 2002) was a Canadian theatre producer. His first production was
Medea
, starring Judith Anderson and John Gielgud, and he won the Outer Critics Circle Award five times. He was nominated for 19 Tony and Drama Desk Awards, winning 4 Tony Awards and 5 Drama Desk Awards.
His father owned textile mills, and his mother, Selena Mary LaBatt Whitehead, was an opera singer. (The actor Hume Cronyn was Whitehead's cousin on the LaBatt side.)
He went to Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, then worked as a commercial photographer before studying acting at the New York School of the Theatre.
He spent the Second World War years as an ambulance driver in North Africa and Italy.
Whitehead had a long-term association with fellow producer Roger L. Stevens. In 1964, the Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre opened with Robert Whitehead and Elia Kazan as its heads and Harold Clurman as literary adviser.
In 1968, Whitehead married Zoe Caldwell, who starred in
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
. (His first wife Virginia, an antique dealer whom he married in 1948, died in 1965.) The couple bought property in Pound Ridge, a mountain area in New York State, and built a house there. Caldwell, who won a Tony as Brodie, later appeared for Whitehead in a revival of
Medea
(with Judith Anderson as the nurse),
Lillian
, a one-woman show about Lillian Hellman, and Terrence McNally's
Master Class
, in which she played Maria Callas.
ABOUT KAYE BALLARD
Kaye Ballard
was born on November 20, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then she has been on the cover of LIFE magazine, played the Tooth Fairy on CAPTAIN KANGAROO, and sipped tea in the Bronx with Mother Teresa. She knew she wanted to perform by the time she was five, and even before graduating high school, began to find work doing imitations of her favorite stars all around Ohio. Kaye performed in both Burlesque and Vaudeville, and before discovering the musical theatre, toured with the Spike Jones Orchestra for two years as featured vocalist and tuba player.
She went on to play every name nightclub that existed throughout the 1950's and '60's including The Bon Soir and The Blue Angel in New York, The Hungry i in San Francisco, and Mr. Kelly's in Chicago. She has appeared on every talk/variety show there ever was including, THE JACK PARR SHOW, THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARSON, THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW, THE PERRY COMO SHOW, THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW, THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, and THE MUPPET SHOW.
Film credits include THE GIRLS MOST LIKELY with Jane Powell, A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME with Shelley Winters, FREAKY FRIDAY with Jodie Foster, WHICH WAY TO THE FRONT? with Jerry Lewis, and THE RITZ with Rita Moreno and Jerry Stiller.
Where she really made a name for herself was on Broadway in such shows as THE GOLDEN APPLE, in which she introduced the standard, "Lazy Afternoon", the original company of CARNIVAL as Rosalie, MOLLY, as Molly Goldberg, and Ruth in PIRATES OF PENZANCE.
Other credits include several record albums, including the first recording of Charles Schultz' Peanuts characters with Arthur Siegel, Ado Annie in a best selling version of OKLAHOMA! with Nelson Eddy, and several Ben Bagley compilations.
Kaye has also performed Mama Rose in GYPSY with both Jack Cassidy and Gavin MacLeod, and been seen in OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS, QUARTET, FUNNY GIRL, Papermill's FOLLIES, and two all-star versions of Dan Goggin's NUNSENSE.
Kaye is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Kaye Beuhl opposite Eve Arden on the Desi Arnaz produced 1960s sitcom, THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW, and as Doris Day's landlord and friend, Angie Pallucci on THE DORIS DAY SHOW.
Kaye always had a project going. Over 70 years of making a living from nothing but show business. Whether writing her memoir, recording a biography, or giving a series of benefit concerts she just kept moving ahead.
In her late 80s Kaye performed no less than five different concerts backed by a full orchestra in New Mexico, Texas, and California with friends Lee Roy Reams, Donna McKechnie, and Liliane Montevecchi, all for the protection and well-being of animals.
Kaye lived her final years happily surrounded by her puppies in the house she bought from Desi Arnaz on a street which was ultimately named for her - Kaye Ballard Lane.
She knew and worked with every legend of 20th Century entertainment from Ray Bolger to George Clooney. Throughout her career Kaye was always devoted to the encouragement of rising talent.
Just before her passing, Kaye attended the exhibition of a documentary about her life and career entitled KAYE BALLARD: THE SHOW GOES ON! at the Palm Springs Film Festival. When told of the Audience Favorite Award the film was given, she responded by saying that, "I can now die a happy woman."
The documentary, KAYE BALLARD: THE SHOW GOES ON! will have its live streaming premiere on July 14, 2020. More info on Kaye's Facebook page (OfficialKayeBallard).
NOTE:
Items will be shipped from Indiana.  Items for sale were in Kaye's home at the time of her passing. They were collected from her home and shipped to an executor of her estate who resides in Indiana. As shipments arrive in Indiana from Kaye's home in Rancho Mirage CA, it is determined which items are able to be sold and those items are listed for sale.