{"id":750145,"date":"2026-08-26T08:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750145\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:58:14","slug":"telegrams-from-hollywood-stars-going-up-for-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750145\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegrams from Hollywood stars going up for auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to an article from The Daily Cinema, which is included in the collection, the ABC Doncaster had 1,277 seats and formed part of a new shopping precinct.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening night was attended by directors of both ABC and production company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lesley said she remembered attending the event as a 10-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember my hairstyle, I remember the dress I was wearing,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember a fanfare of trumpeters outside, a yellow ribbon, the mayoress cutting the ribbon and me presenting her with a huge bouquet of flowers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a telegram, Omar Sharif said he was &#8220;truly sad&#8221; not to be at the opening night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Roger Moore wished &#8220;jolly good luck&#8221; to the new cinema, and added: &#8220;May you never know anything other than standing room only.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bette Davis described the news of the new cinema as &#8220;heartening&#8221;, and said she was on the set of her 78th motion picture, The Anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to an article from The Daily Cinema, which is included in the collection, the ABC Doncaster had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}