Collection of four hardcover autograph books signed throughout by over one hundred entertainers and notables, with highlights including Joe Louis (2, one page also signed by his wife Marva), Spencer Tracy, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West (2), Claude Rains, Carmen Miranda, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Nigel Bruce. Some others include: Danny Kaye, Alexander Korda, Leslie Banks, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Ustinov (2), Jack Warner, Martha Raye, Jean Simmons, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Ronald Colman, Frederic March, Deborah Kerr, Richard Attenborough (2), Margaret Rutherford, Hume Cronyn, Sophie Tucker, Sarah Churchill, and many others including a range of WWII British music hall and radio personalities. A small unsigned original press photo of Joe Louis and his wife Marva is also loosely laid into one book. In very good to fine condition, with some pages clean, some with photos attached, and many with a child’s scribbles and drawings on them.
Additional signers include: Basil Radford, Olsen and Johnson, Fay Compton, Sybil Thorndike, Jack La Rue, Maurice Denham, Elizabeth Welch, Sam Costa, Frances Day, Sydney Box, Dolores Gray, Derek Roy, Ralph Richardson, The Charioteers, Gladys Cooper, Yolande Donlan, Robert Donat, Marjorie Reynolds, Bonar Colleano, Jack Train, Tommy Handley, Hattie Jacques, Lind Joyce, Hugh Morton, Bernard Miles, John Clements, Margaret Johnston, Robert Harbin, Lupino Lane, Laurie Lupino, Wallace Lupino, Barry Lupino, Peter Lupino, Eric Barker, Pearl Hackney, Gillie Potter, Frances Day, George Doonan, Alfie Dean, George Jackley, Nat Mills and Bobbie, Bert Weston, Harry Mooney, Arthur Prince, Harry Parry, Kate Carney, George Robey, Bobby Howes, Bransby Williams, Charlie Chester, Bud Flanagan, Davis Carey, Jerry Desmonde, The Radio Revellers, Heather Thatcher, Austin Trevor, Teddy Knox, Sid Field, Sonnie Hale, Binnie Hale, Celia Johnson, Stanley Matthews, Joe Smith, Stan Mortensen, Joe Robinson, Walter Rickett, Eddie Shimwell, Alex Munro, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Kirk Alyn, Virginia O’Brien, Basil Sidney, Sally Gray, Derrick De Marney, Yvonne Owen, Eileen Herlie, Glynis Johns, Patrick Holt, Maxwell Reed, Joyce Howard, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Cecil Parker, Jack Livesey, Tom Walls, John Clements, Margaret Johnstone, George Weston, Arthur Riscoe, Kenneth Weston, George Weston, Adelaide Hall, Allan Jones, Olaf Olson, Tommy Trinder, Sidney Barnes, Eleanor Parker, Walter Ford, Maxwell Reed, Joseph Calleia, Coral Brown, Edward Rigby, Ronald Shiner, Janis Carter, Edna Best, Donald Wolfit, and Rosalind Iden.
