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Autograph Album

Stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, including Lugosi, Karloff, Sinatra, and Rathbone sign for the daughter of a vaudeville actor

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Stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, including Lugosi, Karloff, Sinatra, and Rathbone sign for the daughter of a vaudeville actor

Softcover autograph album, 6 x 5, signed inside in pencil or ink in the 1930s by 146 celebrities. Nearly all signatures are cut and affixed to their respective page, with several pages having two signatures affixed, the majority are inscribed. Signers include: Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin, Lucille Ball, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Cary Grant, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Fredric March and Florence Eldredge, Susan Hayward, Dick Powell, William Bendix, Rosalind Russell, Red Skelton, Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone, Rochester, Betty Grable, Bing Crosby, Charles Coburn, Burgess Meredith, Milton Berle, Paulette Goddard, Brian Donlevy, Dorothy Lamour, Lena Horne, Raymond Massey, Andy Devine, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Young, Kate Smith, Gene Autry, Walter Huston, Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, John Barrymore, Gary Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Laird Cregar, Eddie Cantor, Joan Bennett, Joan Blondell, Zasu Pitts, Rex Harrison, Ed Wynn, Carmen Miranda, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, George Raft, and Jimmy Durante. In overall very good condition, with many as noted in pencil, inscribed, irregularly clipped, and pasted to the page. The book was originally owned by Marla Cantor, whose father, Charlie Cantor, was a veteran vaudeville, radio, and television actor. A more complete list is available upon request. A treasure trove of Hollywood’s greatest names! RRAuction COA.

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  • Dates: #365 - Ended January 13, 2011