ALEXANDER KIRKLAND - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1933 - HFSID 317475
Sale Price $225.00
Reg. $280.00
ALEXANDER KIRKLAND
The famed actor pens a note to a fan, signed circa 1933. Extremely
Rare!
Autograph note signed: "To Helen/Cordially/Alexander Kirkland,"
in blue ink, 5½x4½ album leaf. Small sepia 1½x1¾ photo of Kirkland affixed
in lower right corner. Unknown hand dates the piece October 3,1933. Alexander
Kirkland (1901 - death date unknown) had 11 prominent film roles between
1931 and 1934, including Almost Married (1932), for which he also
wrote the screenplay. He was seen in A Face in the Crowd (1957), and
in a few TV appearances. He wrote several short stories published in national
magazines. Kirkland was married to famed striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee
from 1942 to 1944, although the couple separated after three months. After
Gypsy's death in 1970, director Otto Preminger acknowledged paternity of Erik
Lee Kirkland, the only child by this marriage. Although Forman Brown stated
that Kirkland was the model for a leading character in his early gay novel,
Better Angel (1933), Kirkland was married two more times. He owned an art
gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, and then retired to an estate in Cuernavaca,
Mexico, where he was last heard from in the late 1980s. Toned around edges.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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