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IE CA CP/3/1/1/13/1
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Letter from James Mason
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- 7 Oct. 1947 (Creation)
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1 p.; Typescript
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(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
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A letter from James Mason (1909-1984), the English-born Hollywood actor, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to Mason’s tribute to the late Abbey Theatre actor F.J. McCormick (d. 24 April 1947), which appeared in the 1948 edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Mason got acquainted with McCormick when they both appeared in the 1947 film ‘Odd Man Out’ in which the former played a mortally wounded republican bank robber on the run in Belfast. Mason requests that his fee for his McCormick tribute be donated to an ‘animal charity’ in Dublin.
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James Mason’s tribute to F.J. McCormick (pp 170-1) can be read online at http://annual.capuchinfranciscans.ie/1948/html5/index.html