Gildna Radner & Gene Wilder Signed Program – COA JSA

Gildna Radner and Gene Wilder signed this 1984 42nd Street program were they attended opening night st the Shubert Theatre in the LA.  They both signed  in black pen signatures grade “9-10”.

Radner met actor Gene Wilder on the set of the Sidney Poitier film Hanky Panky (released in 1982), when the two worked together making the film. She described their first meeting as “love at first sight” She was unable to resist her attraction to Wilder as her marriage to guitarist G. E. Smith deteriorated.  Radner went on to make a second film with Wilder, The Woman in Red (released in 1984), and their relationship grew.  The two were married on September 18, 1984, in Saint-Tropez.  The pair made a third film together, Haunted Honeymoon (released in 1986) and remained married until her death in 1989.

Authentication: JSA Auction House Letter