CLAUDE RAINS - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 280877
Price: $220.00
CLAUDE RAINS
Oscar-nominated actor Claude Rains wrote this short note on the back of a Museum of
Modern Art card, asking "Did you see the show or were you up to your neck in you
know what".
Autograph note signed "CC". 1 page, 5¼x3¼. Written on verso of a card from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Printed by Arthur Jaffé Heliochrome Co., New York City. In
full: "Up early this Monday morn and got to the [illegible] by 9. Did you see the show or
were you up to your neck in you know what. Love". 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). Lightly toned and soiled. Pen skipped while
writing note and signature, which have bled lightly but are legible. Otherwise in fine condition.
Accompanied by PSA/DNA LOA.
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