Vintage scrapbook documenting a fan’s trip to Hollywood and her close encounters with a number of stars, 8.25 x 11.5, circa 1933. The scrapbook, with a handwritten title page reading “My Trip to California, 1933,” contains several picture postcards and captions related to Hollywood and environs; among the ephemera is a Grauman’s Chinese Theatre program headlined by a screening of the classic Busby Berkeley musical Gold Diggers of 1933. Most notable among the contents, though, is a group of approximately 40 signatures on individual cards and slips, most affixed with photo corners and thus easily removable. The original owner explains how she obtained the signatures in several handwritten comments: “Every Sunday is movie nite at the Miramar Hotel [Santa Monica]. Many celebrities attend and there is always a special program....” She goes on to list several celebrities she encountered on successive visits, and continues: “One day we went to the Vine Street Brown Derby [again providing a list of names].... Every Tuesday nite [celebrities] meet at Coconut Grove at the Ambassador Hotel....” Represented among the signers (a few inscribing): Jean Harlow, Mona Lleslie, Sally Eilers, Loretta Young (two), Ruby Keeler, Al Jolson, Ruth Etting, Bert Wheeler, Phillipe Holmes, Jack Oakie, Mary Brian, Mae Murray, Edmund Lowe, Billy Haines, Jay Whidden, Adrienne Ames, Claudette Colbert, Pat O’Brien, Lee Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Bette Davis (pencil); Mervyn LeRoy, Dick Powell, Ann Harding, Zasu Pitts, Gloria Stuart, Sterling Holloway, Marie Dressler, Ginger Rogers, Gloria Swanson (pencil), Marguerite Churchill, George O’Brien, Stuart Erwin, Buster Crabbe, George Raft, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Boots Mallory, and Lois Wilson (pencil). Though, as is typically the case, the covers and individual pages of the scrapbook are toned and brittle, the individual items are fine, clean, and mostly unaffected overall, with scattered mild toning, soiling, and wrinkles, a few with creases (including Harlow, touching signature), a few with irregular trimming (including Harlow and Crabbe), and tiny, unobtrusive blots to Harlow’s sentiment. R&R COA.
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