ASQUITH (Anthony, 1902-1968) English film director; DEHN (Paul, 1912-1976) English screenwriter

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ASQUITH (Anthony, 1902-1968) English film director; DEHN (Paul, 1912-1976) English screenwriter, known for the James Bond movie Goldfinger; GISH (Lillian, 1893-1993) American Actress. A Dictionary of Cat Lovers XV Century B.C. – XX Century A.D., compiled by Christabel Aberconway, 1950, 2nd impression, presentation copy signed and inscribed to the half title page by Asquith (‘For Adza and Susie, in memory of “Orders to Kill” with much love from Puff’, using an abbreviated form of his family name Puffin), Dehn (‘For the London mistress of a Boston cat – Gratefully, Paul Dehn’) and Gish (‘Dear Adza and Susie (the Queen) with such happy memories and love, Lillian Gish’), with several newspaper clippings inserted, (one relating to the appearance of Mirabel, a tortoiseshell cat, in the film Orders to Kill). Also with a manuscript note in the hand of Adza Vincent to the endpapers, recounting an anecdote told by Lillian Gish on the occasion of her farewell luncheon at the Hyde Park Hotel, London, 24th August 1957, all in red cloth gilt, slight wear and fading.Adza Vincent (1917-1995) English actress and theatrical agent.Orders to Kill (1958) was a British wartime drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and with a screenplay by Paul Dehn. Lillian Gish appeared in the film in a cameo role as Mrs. Summers.