Leather-bound guest book from Arnaud’s Restaurant, New Orleans, 11.5 x 18, circa 1950–1960, signed by more than 2,500, including entertainers, politicians, military figures, international dignitaries, and mere mortals. Most of the pages are double-sided; all bear multiple signatures, a few signers represented with multiple examples. Among the more prominent personalities: Gene Lockhart, Andy Devine, Guy Madison, Marilyn Maxwell, Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Hugh Herbert, Joan Caulfield, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Rubinstein, Lon Chaney, Jr., Marge and Gower Champion, Rudy and Ellie Vallée, James Stewart, Franchot Tone, Dan Duryea, Hoppy, Arthur Fiedler, Peter Lind Hayes, Dorothy Lamour, Van Heflin, Monte Hale, the Ames Brothers, Burt Bacharach, Pat O’Brien, Mona Freeman, Dean Martin, Forrest Tucker, Audie Murphy, Maureen Stapleton, Hal Foster, Sheila MacRae, Rosemary Clooney, Edward G. Robinson, Bob Considine, June Haver, Ramón Navarro, Fred MacMurray, Jackie Gleason, Roy Rogers, Jane Russell, Joseph Cotten, Bing Crosby, Jeff Chandler, Gary Cooper, Linda Darnell, Jim Arness, Jimmy Durante, Gene Nelson, Tyrone Power, Margaret Webster, Cornel Wilde, Eddie Bracken, and Lew Ayres. Light wear to binding, scattered soiling and light staining to interior, some of the signatures overlapping, and a few brushes and blots, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
