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Lot #1554
Celebrity Signatures

A Hollywood gathering in writing

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A Hollywood gathering in writing

Fabulous lot of forty-nine vintage ink and pencil signatures, all on variously colored 6 x 4 album pages. This lot of signatures includes: Bill Robinson, adding a round, sketched face beneath his signature; Reginald Owens; Molly Picon, adding her characteristic sketched face within the “P” (ins) and with Eydie Gorme on the reverse; Larry Parks (ins); Slim Pickens (ins); Mickey Rooney; Ritz Bros (inscribed as follows: “To Abdullah, Our name is Ritz / But we are not Ritzy / Good luck / Ritz Bros / Your hands are too cold - Gee Wizz”; May Robeson (with a small photo of the actress affixed to the page); Ann Rutherford; Rags Ragland; Martha Raye; Smokey Okey Rogers; Red Skelton, Preston Sturges (with a photo of Rita Hayworth affixed to the reverse); Charles Starrett; C. Aubrey Smith; Ed Sullivan (ins) with Sid Caesar’s signature on the reverse (also ins); Mae West (ins) with Judith Barrie on the reverse); Bette Davis (with several small photos affixed beneath her signature and a bit of smudging to two of the letters); Edward G. Robinson; Otis Skinner; Pat O’Brien; George Sidney with F[reddy] Bartholomew on the reverse; Dinah Shore (ins); Zachary Scott; Donald Ogden Stuart; Norma Shearer; Sylvia Sidney; Randolph Scott (on a 3.5 x 2 card); Frankie Thomas; Sonny Tufts; Benny Rubin; Harry Richman; Charlie Ruggles (ins); Zasu Pitts (2) (both ins); Barbara Stanwyck (3 x 2 card); Mary Pickford (3 x 2 card); Dick Powell (with Kitty Kelly on the reverse); Joe Penner; Roland Young; Nicholas Brothers, inscribed and with cute ink sketches of both; David Niven (5 x 3 card); Paul Muni (3 x 2 card); Lucille Ball (ins and with an unidentified signature on the reverse); Betty Grable; and, two others. In overall very good condiition, with expected toning, file holes to edge for some where removed from albums; unobtrusive collector’s notations to some. R&R COA.

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  • Dates: #297 - Ended May 18, 2005