Cat. #005853: MEREDITH WILLSON

Scarce mattable vintage turquoise fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch light blue autograph album page, acquired in-person-- as we was getting into a car, according to the original collector's notations!-- in 1949. In good condition. Brilliant Broadway composer, lyricist, composer, and arranger Meredith Willson-- a master of incorporating folksy dialects, wordplay and ambient sounds into his impossibly catchy tunes-- is remembered for the scores to "The Music Man" (1959) and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" (1960). In addition to a Grammy Award for the original cast album for "The Music Man," he snagged two Oscar nominations for his scores for The Great Dictator (1941) and The Little Foxes (1942).