CHARLES D. COBURN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 255582

CHARLES COBURN
B/w publicity photo from 1939's The Story of Alexander Graham Bell of Charles Coburn and Gene Lockhart in Victorian dress and with top hats. Signed "Two Young gentleman if the old school- both still going strong" in green ink.
Photograph signed "Two Young gentleman if the old school-/both still going strong-/Charles Coburn" in green ink. Typewritten captions and handwritten captions in black ink and lead pencil on verso in unknown hand. B/w, 7¾x9½ overall, 7¾x9¼ image, one surface. According to the notations on verso, this photo is from the 1939 biopic The Story Alexander Graham Bell. Coburn starred as Gardner Hubbard and Lockhart as Thomas Sanders. Broadway actor, producer and director Coburn (1877-1961), born Charles Douville Coburn, did not appear in his first feature film (Of Human Hearts) until 1938, when he was 61. In 1940, he portrayed Dr. Henry Gordon, who unjustly amputated Drake McHugh's (Ronald Reagan) legs in Kings Row, resulting in the future President's greatest screen line (and title of his first autobiography): "Where's the rest of me?" Coburn was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (1941, The Devil and Miss Jones; 1943, The More the Merrier; 1946, The Green Years). He won in 1943 for his portrayal of elderly Benjamin Dingle, a likable business executive forced by the wartime housing shortage to share a Washington D.C. apartment with Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea. Lightly toned, stained, soiled, cracked, creased and bowed. Pinholes in corners and at top edge, which touches signature. Missing top right corner. Paper loss in bottom right corner. Light tear in top left corner. Light scratches on image. Otherwise in fine condition.