Extraordinary lot of one hundred vintage matte-finish or glossy 8x 10 photographs signed in fountain pen or ball point features stage and film actors and actresses, vaudevillians, radio stars and more! This lot includes: Joan Bennett, Robert Conrad, Audrey Christie, Jerome Cowan, Imogene Coca, Steve Cochran, Joseph Cotten (2), Sally Eilers, Billy DeWolfe, a Maurice Seymour portrait of Benny Fields, Pauline Frederick, Kirby Grant, Olivia deHavilland, Janet Leigh, Fredric March, Anna Neagle, Conrad Nagel, Lili Palmer, Jeanne Helbling (2), William Faversham, Nanette Fabray, Jimmie Fidler, Betty Furness, Sue Carol, Ann Doran, Maxine Doyle, Frankie Darro, Dick Davalos (as an aside, Davalos appears on the cover of The Smiths’ Strangeways, Here We Come), John Derek, Bessie Eyton, Mary Eaton, Edith Fellows, Betty Furness, Alice Frost, Jinx Falkenburg, Nina Foch (signed “Nina”), Zsa Zsa Gabor, Sid Gary, Betty Garrett, Elinor Glyn (who coined the term “It,” i.e. “It Girl” and wrote write the salacious - and banned - novel Three Weeks), Harry Guardino, Bettina Hall, Bill Henry, Alexander Kirkland, Doris Kenyon, June Knight, Dorothy Kilgallen, Dennis King, Kim Hunter, Susan Kohmer, Raymond Massey, James Mitchell, George Maharis, Leroy Mason, Douglass Montgomery, George Murphy, Maria Palmer (signed “Maria”), Marisa Pavan, Marjorie Reynolds, Ruth Roland, Bette Davis (late-career photo), Marie Windsor, Arthur Treacher, Tempest Storm, Connie Stevens, Robert Stack (circa 1939), Red Skelton (signed in red pencil), Sylvia Sidney, Doris Keane, Madge Kennedy, Virginia Lee Corbin, Sue Carol and Nick Stuart, Barbara Rush, Debbie Reynolds (2), Victor Jory (signed “Victor”), Florence Rockwell, Dick Arlen (in a scene from 1927’s Wings), John Archer, Noelle Adam (3.5 x 5.5), Brian Aherne (2 - one is a felt tip signature), Peaches Browning, Barry Baxter, Billie Billings, Mary Boland, Mae Busch, Vivian Blaine (3), Bessie Barriscale, Shirley Booth, Joan Blondell, Richard Basehart, Tubby Boots, Barbara Bennett, John Baragrey, Robert Barrat, Binnie Barnes and Lina Basquette (reportedly Adolf Hitler’s favorite actress). In overall very good condition with many inscribed, many with adhesive residue on the reverse from previous mountings, expected edge toning and creasing to several, the occasional smudged signature and some with neatly trimmed edges, occasional tack holes. R&R COA.
