CLAUDE RAINS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED CIRCA 1940 - HFSID 280892
Price: $280.00
CLAUDE RAINS
Autograph letter to his daughter on an artistic post card, signed "Fa
Fa"
Autograph Letter signed: "Love Fa Fa", 5¼x3¼ color picture
postcard. Postcard image is of Friday Street in Painswick, Glos. Beverly
Hills, California, 1940 September 17. Addressed in his hand to "Jennifer
Rains/Stuck Eagle/R. D. Houngton/Pa." One 6-cent US stamp affixed.
In full: "[illegible] to find the Dekkers tomorrow Summary
and will duly report to you re Jan. Horo is next town Church". From the
estate of Claude Rains. Rains (1889-1967), who played the title role in
The Invisible Man (1933), was nominated for Academy Awards for Best
Supporting Actor in 1939 (as the "bought" Senator Paine in Mr. Smith Goes
to Washington), 1943 (Inspector Louis Renault in Casablanca), 1944
(title role in Mr. Skeffington) and 1946 (Ingrid Bergman's Nazi husband
in Notorious). This letter was written to his daughter Jennifer, who had
grown up with Rains and her mother, Frances Propper (Rain's third of 6 wives) on
a farm near West Chester.When she became an actor like her father, Jenni
changed her name to Jessica to avoid confusion with another actress. Rains
signed his letters to his daughter in a variety of ways, including "Fa Fa" and
"Pie Face". Lightly worn and creased at corners. Lightly spotted not near
signature. Otherwise, fine condition.
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