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BETTY LAWFORD - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 1931 - HFSID 80870

8½x9½ sepia image of the English actress, signed the year she was married in New York City Hall. An extremely rare signature! Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Mr.…"

Price: $320.00

Condition: Slightly creased, otherwise fine condition
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BETTY LAWFORD
8½x9½ sepia image of the English actress, signed the year she was married in New York City Hall. An extremely rare signature!
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Mr. Wighton/Can't you hear/what the wild waves/are saying?/With best wishes/of Betty Lawford/1931" Sepia, 8½x9½. English stage and film actress Betty Lawford (1912-1960), the daughter of actor Ernest Lawford and the cousin of Peter Lawford, appeared in a 14 films between 1929 and 1947. She generally played second leads behind female stars like Claudette Colbert and Carole Lombard. In Berkeley Square (1933), she played Leslie Howard's fiancée, losing him after he travels to the past and meets Heather Angel. Lawford's first marriage, to actor Monta Bell, was performed by Major Jimmy Walker in New York City Hall the year she signed this picture. Lightly worn. Slightly creased. Pencil notes (unknown hand) on verso (no show through). ½-inch tear at top right edge. Top right corner clipped. Signature in poor contrast. Otherwise, fine condition.

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