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Lot #1256
Vintage Hollywood, Part I

Golden-Age gold: Vintage Hollywood signature lot

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Golden-Age gold: Vintage Hollywood signature lot

Terrific lot of thirty-one vintage ink signatures, most on off-white 5 x 3 pages, 1920s–1950s. Many bear personal sentiments, quotations, or the date in the signer’s hand. Included: Mary Pickford (two: 1923 and 1927), Norma Talmadge (1927), Lillian Gish, Annette Kellerman (irregularly trimmed card), Mae West, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Frederic March (1934), Eddie Cantor, Mary Astor (1940), Carole Landis (1940), Fay Wray (1940), Norma Shearer (together with her husband, skier Martin Arrougé), Veronica Lake, Claudette Colbert (1943), Gloria Swanson (two: one 1950, the other a 5 x 7 ISP), Rosalind Russell (1951), Loretta Young (1951), Hedda Hopper (1947), Esther Williams, Kim Novak (1955), Barbara Stanwyck (1955), Billie Burke (1931), Nazimova, Helen Morgan (1936), Gertrude Lawrence (1938), Helen Hayes (1936), Olivia de Havilland (1951), and Agnes Moorehead (1951). A few brushes, typed collector’s notations (slightly touching writing in a few cases), binding holes at left edge, and small label remnants at edges, otherwise in fine, clean condition. R&R COA.

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