Unique and impressive vintage autograph book, 7.25 x 9.25, practically bursting with approximately 800 autographs of Hollywood film stars and other notables from the 1930s and on. The book contains 180 pages, each bearing closely or irregularly trimmed signatures, accompanied by clipped images of the respective celebrity, affixed to front and back sides. Consignor notes that the autographs were obtained by William Boyer Greenwood, who worked as a security guard at one of the Hollywood studios during the 1930s.
Highlights are as follows: Jean Harlow, Walt Disney, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Clara Bow, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Will Rogers, Harold Lloyd, Betty Grable, Una Merkel, Joan Crawford, Eddie Cantor, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Edward G. Robinson, Spencer Tracy, James Cagney, George Raft, Charles Starrett, Bill Robinson, Hoot Gibson, Sid Grauman, Paul Muni, Alice Brady, Mary Pickford, Virginia Bruce, Pat O’Brien, Joan Bennett, Gloria Swanson, Ted Healy, Mae West, Dolores Del Rio, Ginger Rogers, Bill Boyd, Johnny Weissmuller, Irving Berlin, Rosiland Russell, Bing Crosby, Joe E. Brown, Fats Waller, Mickey Rooney, Claudette Colbert, John Boles, Harry Carey, Theda Bara, Hattie McDaniel, Leo Carrillo, Lili Damita, Jack Benny, Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, Charles Laughton, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Chester Morris, Ruby Keeler, Cesar Romero, Henry Fonda, Andy Devine, Fay Wray, Jane Withers, Bette Davis, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Connolly, Ben Turpin, Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels, Jack Dempsey, Olivie de Havilland, Fred Astaire, Jane Wyatt, Paul Robeson, and many more. Each page is covered with cellophane, which is neatly taped along the top and bottom edges. In overall fine condition, with heavy wear to the covers and spine, and some of the pages detached.
