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Lot #1257
Vintage Hollywood, Part II

Even more Golden-Age gold!

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Even more Golden-Age gold!

Outstanding lot of sixty-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: Charles Rogers, Basil Rathbone, Lars Hanson (1927), George Raft (1939), Clayton Moore (1940), Sabu (1940), Paul Muni (two: both 1945), Donald Crisp (1947), Burt Lancaster (two: one dated 1947), Francis X. Bushman (two: one dated 1951), Robert Taylor, Ray Milland (two: one dated 1952), Glenn Ford (1950), Yul Brynner, Duncan Renaldo (1954), Tab Hunter, Lex Barker, Jack Webb (1955), Raymond Burr (adding “From Perry Mason”), Jack Benny (1951), Fred Allen, Eddie Cantor (1944), Edgar Bergen (“and Charlie,” with a small sketch; 1951), Bob Hope (1941), George Burns and Gracie Allen (together; 1938), Charlton Heston (1951), George Arliss (1927), Walter Huston (1936), Ruth Chatterton (1941), Steve Cochran (1944), Albert Dekker, Larry Parks (1956), Zachary Scott (1952), Henry Fonda (1951), Cedric Hardwicke (1951), Charles Boyer (1951), Charles Laughton (1951), Ramón Navarro (two: one dated 1925), Jack Holt, Ricardo Cortez (1925), Gilbert Roland, William Powell (1927), Robert McKim (1924), Rod LaRocque, Adolphe Menjou, John Gilbert (1925), Joseph Schildkraut, Wallace Beery (1928), Jimmy Stewart (1941), Roddy McDowall (1943), Harold Lloyd (1950), Fred Allen (short TLS), Clifton Webb (1944), Douglas Fairbanks (1927), Dick Powell (1954 TLS), and Jeff Chandler (1951 ALS). A few brushes, a minor chip or two, 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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