BEN LYON - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 55190
Sale Price $135.00
Reg. $160.00
BEN LYON
The silent film star signs a note on a 5½x4¼beige album leaf
Autograph Note signed: "To Mabelle-/My best wishes/Ben Lyon"
in pencil. 5½x4¼. Lyon (1901-1979, born in Atlanta, Georgia) was an
American actor who starred in films of the silent and early talking era. In
Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels (1930), he piloted his own plane. He
married Bebe Daniels in 1930. Both moved to England in 1935 and became
popular radio and television personalities there. Lyon fought in the Royal
Air Force during World War II. After Bebe's death, he married former movie
co-star Marian Nixon. In 1946, while working for 20th Century Fox, he organized
a color screen test for a young actress named Norma Jean Dougherty, got
Dougherty her first contract and suggested a name change to "Marilyn Monroe".
Lightly toned and spotted. Leaf has been torn from album on left. Tear in top
and left edges of leaf. Otherwise in fine condition.
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