BEN LYON - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 301273
Price: $420.00
BEN LYON
Sepia photograph of the actor shown in a three-piece suit
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Eddie-/With best wishes/Ben Lyon". Sepia, 8x10. Ben
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 bowed. Corners lightly creased. Pencil notations (unknown hand) on
verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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