Moby Dick stars’ notes to ill teen discovered

Goodwill messages scribbled to an invalid teenage girl by cast and crew members during the 1954 filming of Moby Dick in Co Cork have been rediscovered.

Youghal man John McGrath found the messages in a leather-bound autograph book while perusing memorabilia during the town’s recent Moby Dick Festival.

The book belonged to his late sister Nancy, who was 17 years old when film-makers shot the opening scenes of John Huston’s adaptation of Herman Melville’s epic novel throughout that summer.