CLAIRE BLOOM - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 221469

CLAIRE BLOOM
B/w publicity photo from 1969's The Illustrated Man of actress Claire Bloom, signed with her "Best wishes"
Photograph signed "Best wishes/Claire Bloom". B/w, 7½x9¾ overall, 7½x8½ image, one surface. Photo from The Illustrated Man (1969), based on the short story collection by Ray Bradbury. ©1969 Warner Brothers-Seven Arts, Inc. Rod Steiger starred as the eponymous Illustrated Man, with Bloom as his tattoo artist. The two divorced after 10 years of marriage the year that the The Illustrated Man was released. English actress Claire Bloom made her London stage debut in The Lady's Not for Burning (1947), starring the following year as Hamlet's Ophelia, the first of her many Shakespearean roles. She has said that her favorite stage role was that of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her many film parts include Chaplin's Limelight (1952), Anna Karenina and Wuthering Heights. Her appearances on American television range from soap operas (As the World Turns) to miniseries (Edith Wilson in Backstairs at the White House) to Masterpiece Theatre (Brideshead Revisited). Her first marriage was to actor Rod Steiger, her third to novelist Phillip Roth. (Bloom and Roth penned very unflattering accounts of each other after their 1995 breakup, Bloom's appearing in her autobiography). Lightly toned, creased and bowed. Pen skipped while writing signature, which is legible. Light chipping on image in top right corner. Light scratches on image (not visible head-on). Otherwise in fine condition.