HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STAR AUTOGRAPH ALBUM WITH MANY STAR'S SIGNATURES.
Item Description
6.5x7.75" wood and leather strap bound album has an assortment of over 75 signatures from Hollywood stars of the 1930s and 1940s. Pages contain a variety of mounted signatures, some clipped from autograph album pages, some are tiny mounted envelopes from "The Los Angeles Ambassador" hotel w/signed cards within, some are cards w/cut-out newspaper photos of the corresponding star mounted beside their signature. Majority of signatures are in pencil w/a few in ink. Signatures include - Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller, Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers star Buster Crabbe (2), Sid Grauman of Grauman's Chinese Theater fame (2), frequent gangster film star Edward G. Robinson, ice-skating star Sonja Henie, Gloria Swanson, Clark Gable, Betty Grable, Walter Huston, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Bette Davis, comedians Mischa Auer (2) and Jack Benny, movie columnist Louella Parsons, comedic duo John Olsen and Harold Johnson, George Burns and Gracie Allen (2), Lena Horne, Jack Oakie, William Powell, Al Jolson, Uncle Sam "I Want You" artist James Montgomery Flagg, Frankie Darro (2), Ruby Keeler (2), Claire Trevor, John Howard, Marian March, Ross Alexander, Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Wilhelm Henie (Sonja Henie's father), Billy Gray, Etherl Shutta, Grace Bradley, Stuart Erwin, Marion Nixon, Ray Milland, Thomas E. Jackson, Porter Hall, Gene Raymond, E.J. Nugent, Nick Stuart (Lightning from Amos 'n' Andy), Helen Mack, Raymond Paige, Mary York Paige, Hal Grayson, Alan Mowbray, Raquel Torres, Walter Connolly, Evelyn Venable (voice and model for The Blue Fairy in Disney's "Pinocchio"), Fuzzy Knight, Erik Rhodes, Sally Eilers, Jack Coogan, Mona Maris and more. Robert Taylor signature is in unknown hand, possibly secretarial. Pages are aged and signatures have some scattered aging as mounted w/some scattered smudging to pencil signatures, but all remains distinct and legible. Fine/VF overall. Wonderful collection of stars from Hollywood's Golden Age. Comes with Hake's COA and JSA LOA.