Signed book: All Taking! All Singing! All Dancing!. First edition. NY: The Citadel Press, 1966. Hardcover with dustjacket, 9.5 x 12, 256 pages. Signed in ink and felt tip throughout the book by various familiar faces of the musical movie genre. In good condition, with toning and mild to moderate rubbing throughout, a loose front hinge with the beginnings of separation towards the bottom and complete separation of the back hinge, and reparative tape running the length of the hinge and around the border of both pastedowns. Dustjacket is in good condition, with scattered areas of surface loss and moderate tears. A rare gem, this piece presents nearly all the icons from the heyday of classic musicals.
Signers are: June Allyson (3), Julie Andrews (4), Louis Armstrong, Eddy Arnold, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball (2), Anne Bancroft, Warren Beatty, Harry Belafonte, Ingrid Bergman, Busby Berkeley, Leonard Bernstein, Vivian Blaine (2), Joan Blondell, Ray Bolger (2), Pat Boone (2), Victor Borge, Yul Brynner, George Burns, Richard Burton, Leslie Caron (3), Cyd Charisse (3), Jordan Christopher, Betty Comden, Joan Crawford (3), Bing Crosby, Arlene Dahl, Dan Dailey, John Davidson, Sammy Davis, Jr. (2), Gloria DeHaven, Irene Dunne, Jimmy Durante, Taina Elg, Henry Fonda, Bob Fosse, Sergio Franchi, Cary Grant, Adolph Green, Rex Harrison, June Haver, Woody Herman, Bob Hope (4), Lena Horne, Rock Hudson, Jack Jones, Shirley Jones (2), Danny Kaye (3), Ruby Keeler (2), Gene Kelly (5), Grace Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Dennis King, Hedy Lamarr, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Peggy Lee, Janet Leigh (2), Beatrice Lillie (2), Myrna Loy, Shirley MacLaine, Gordon MacRae (2), Henry Mancini, Ann Margaret (2), Tony Martin, Groucho Marx, James Mason, Ethel Merman, Ray Milland, Ann Miller (2), Liza Minneli, Zero Mostel, George Murphy (2), Pola Negri, Phyllis Newman, Maureen O’Sullivan, Merle Oberon, Otto Peringer, Robert Preston, Harold S. Prince, Juliet Prowse, George Raft, John Raitt (2), Martha Raye, Debbie Reynolds (2), Jerome Robbins, Richard Rodgers, Roy Rogers, Mickey Rooney (4), Lillian Roth, Jane Russell, Eva Marie Saint, Robert Shaw, Wini Shaw, Moira Shearer, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra (3), Red Skelton, John Springer, James Stewart (2), Barbra Streisand, Gloria Swanson (2), Elizabeth Taylor, Kay Thompson (2), Pamela Tiffin, Rudy Vallee, Gwen Verdon (2), Ethel Waters (2), Orson Welles, Mae West, Natalie Wood. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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