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Signed book: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Players Directory, 1939. Softcover, 9 x 12, 338 pages. Signed in ink by approximately 210 Hollywood stars, nearly all adjacent to their respective likeness and a few inscribed. Signers are: Brian Aherne, Luis Alberni, Fred Allen, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lona Andre, Stanley Andrews, Heather Angel, Robert Armstrong, Edward Arnold, Mischa Auer, Gene Autry, Fay Bainter (2), Lucille Ball, Lynn Bari, Vince Barnett, Robert Barrad, Mona Barrie, Phyllis Barry, Freddie Bartholomew, Bennie Bartlett, Warner Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Joan Bennett, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen, Noah Berry, Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Clara Blandick, Humphrey Bogart, Mary Boland, Ray Bolger, Ward Bond, Beulah Bondi, Bobby Breen, El Brendel, George Brent, Donald Briggs, Harlan Briggs, Joe E. Brown, Arthur Q. Bryan, Jane Bryan, Billie Burke, Spring Byington, James Cagney (2), Joseph Calleia, Leo Carillo, Richard Carlson, Madeline Carroll, Jack Carson, Maurice Cass, Spencer Charters, Chief Thundercloud, Chester Clute, Charles Coburn, Claudette Colbert, Jerry Colonna, Jimmy Conlin, Walter Connolly, Robert Cummings, Dick Curtis, Frankie Darro, William Davidson, Bette Davis, Joan Davis, Frances Dee, Olivia DeHavilland, William Demarest, Richard Denning, Gloria Dickson, Johnny Downs, Tom Dugan, Douglas Dumbrille, Irene Dunne, John Eldredge, Patricia Ellis, James Ellison, Paul Everton, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Virginia Field, Stanley Fields, W. C. Fields, James Finlayson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Preston Foster, John Garfield, Judy Garland, Wynne Gibson, Billy Gilbert, Paulette Goddard, Mary Gordon, Cary Grant, Richard Greene, Earl Gunn, Frank Hagney, Alan Hale, Huntz Hall, William Hall, Gabby Hayes, Hugh Herbert, Russell Hicks, Al Hill, Halliwell Hobbs, Fay Holden, Harry Holman, Tim Holt, Bob Hope, Olin Howland, George Humbert, Selmer Jackson, Betty Jaynes, Si Jenks, Alan Jones, Robert Kellard, Cy Kendall, Dorothea Kent, Guy Kibbee, Al Kikume, Walter Woolf King, Fuzzy Knight, Clarence Kolb, Lorraine Krueger, Otto Kruger, Dorothy Lamour, Priscilla Lane, Richard Lane, Rosemary Lane, Ivan Lebedenoff, Gene Lockhart, Robert Lowery, Myrna Loy, Bela Lugosi, Paul Lukas, Jeffrey Lynn, Priscilla Lyon, Donald MacBride, Barton MacLane, Horace MacMahon, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Tony Martin, Ray Milland, Frank Mitchell, Frank Morgan, Ralph Morgan, Chester Morris, Wayne Morris, Alan Mowbray, George Murphy, Charlie Murray, Tom Neal, David Niven, Jack Norton, George O’Brien, Pat O’Brien, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry O’Neill, Jack Oakie, Lynn Oberman, Gordon Oliver, Frank Orth, Eugene Pallette, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, John Payne, Dorothy Peterson, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Eleanor Powell, Jed Prouty, Roger Pryor, Bernard Punsley, Eddie Quillan, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Phil Regan, Florence Rice, Al Ritz, Harry Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Dewey Robinson, May Robson, Mickey Rooney, Jack Roper, Maxie Rosenbloom, Charles Ruggles, Syd Saylor, Anne Shirley, Ivan Simpson, Russell Simpson, Lionel Stander, Barbara Stanwyck, Elliot Sullivan, Robert Taylor, Zeffie Tilbury, Mabel Todd, Arthur Treacher, Charles Trowbridge, Harry Tyler, Eddy Waller, H. B. Warner, Johnny Weismuller, Jacqueline Wells, Charles Williams, Norman Willis, Linda Winters, Donald Woods, Loretta Young, and Robert Young.The collection is so extensive and diverse, even the first ‘Tonto,’ Chief Thundercloud, is present. In fine condition, with holes punched through the left edge of the volume so that it could be placed in a three-ring binder for storage and protection; the front and back covers of the binder have since become separated from the spine, however, the Directory itself, including its covers remain intact. An incredible, one-of-a-kind cavalcade of stars and a unique chance to obtain signatures of Garland, Burke, Morgan, Bolger, and Blandick all together on one item from 1939, the year the Wizard of Oz was released! A complete list of signers is available here and more images can be viewed here. RRAuction COA.
