Collection of 34 hardcover books, each signed inside on an opening page in ink or felt tip by the respective celebrity author or actor(s) related to the work discussed, with most adding inscriptions. Signers are: Helen Hayes and Susan Strasberg (Time Remembered); Lauren Bacall (By Myself); Anne Baxter (Intermission); Ralph Bellamy (When the Smoke Hit the Fan); John Ericson and one other (Stalag 17); Charles Bickford (Bulls, Balls, Bicycles, and Actors); Dirk Bogarde (A Gentle Occupation); Lloyd Bridges (Mask and Flippers); Joan Collins (Past Imperfect); Olivia de Havilland (Every Frenchman Has One); Maurice Evans (G. I. Production of Hamlet); Sterling Hayden (Wanderer); Dorothy Lamour (My Side of the Road); Mervyn Leroy (Mervyn Leroy: Take One); Cyd Charisse and Dick Kleiner (The Two of Us); Victor McLaglen (Express to Hollywood); Ethel Merman and George Eells (Merman: An Autobiography); Colleen Moore (Silent Star); Robert Morley (Robert Morley: A Reluctant Autobiography); Joe Pasternak (Easy the Hard Way); Anthony Quinn (The Original Sin); Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs); Celeste Holm and Howard Da Silva (Oklahoma!); Harold Russell (Victory in My Hands); Jane Seymour (Guide to Romantic Living); Kate Smith (Upon My Lips a Song); Susan Strasberg (Bittersweet); Gene Tierney (Self-Portrait); Lana Turner (The Lady, the Legend, the Truth); Maurice Evans (Tenderloin); Julie Andrews and one other (The Boy Friend); Robert Preston (The Music Man); Shelley Winters (Shelley: Also Known as Shirley); and Lloyd Nolan (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial). Accompanied by an unsigned copy of Jack Bailey’s What’s Cookin.’ In very good overall condition, with several books having ownership bookplates affixed. Oversized. RRAuction COA.
