Autograph Collection.- Actors & Entertainers

Autograph Collection.- Actors & Entertainers

A large collection of cards, photographs, souvenir menus and ephemera signed by prominent vintage actors and entertainers, mostly inscribed to Renata, including: Elizabeth Welch, Van Johnson, Franchot Tone, Valerie Hobson, Peggy Cummins, Sonny Tufts, Isabel Bigley, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Jackie Cooper, Diane Adrian, Susan Shaw, David Tomlinson, Terence Morgan, Dolores Gray, Ben Johnson, John Ireland, Henry Kendall, Sheila Sim, Richard Attenborough, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winter, Cecil Parker, Margaret Leighton, Ralph Bellamy, Tex Ritter, Greer Garson, Yvonne de Carlo, Anthony Steel, Richard Todd, Noel Coward, Maurice Chevalier, Emlyn Williams, Janet Leigh, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis and Eddie Fisher (the last four on the same page), Elspeth Gray, John Slater, Wallace Douglas, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Ronald Shiner, John Loder, Robert Taylor, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Sam Spiegel, Jennifer Jones (the last five on the same page), Charlie McCarthy, Simon Signoret, Phil Silvers, Eddie Constantine, Alice Faye Silvers, Ann Miller, Anna Magnani, Michael Redgrave, Eve Bartock, Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Frank Sinatra, Ann Todd, Wilfred Pickles, Vittorio Gassman, Broderick Crawford, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Clifton Webb, Ray Milland, Jack Benny, Kenneth More, Allen Jones, Marius Goring, John Clements, Kay Hammond, Jimmy Edwards, Cedric Hardwicke, Trevor Howard, Nadia Gray, Jinx Falkenburg, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner (the last two on the same page), William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Danny Kaye, Liberace, Vera Lynn, Petula Clark, Joan Greenwood, Norman Wisdom, Roger Livesey, Edward Woodward, Johnny Weissmuller, Irene Manning, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, George Robey, Irving Berlin, Jack La Rue, Patrick Holt, Craig Stevens, Errol Flynn, Gloria Nord, Beniamino Gigli, Sophie Tucker, Marlene Dietrich, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding, Sally Ann Howes, Herbert Lom, Douglas Montgomery, David Niven, Lisbeth Webb, Guy Middleton, Bob Hope, Jack Buchanan and a few others, also including photographs with printed signatures, v.s. c. 1940s-1950s (in three albums)

PROVENANCE: signatures were obtained by the vendor's father, who worked as a waiter at various well-known restaurants including the Bagatelle, The Pigalle and the Cafe de Paris in London. Many signatures are inscribed to Renata, the vendor's sister.

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