DOM DELUISE - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH 1980 - HFSID 183623

DOM DeLUISE
Black and white publicity photograph of Dom DeLuise in a scene from the film The End, signed in 1980
Photograph signed: "Love/Dom DeLuise/[drawn happy face]/'80". B/w, 8x10 overall, image 7½x8¾ (one surface). Shown in a still from the 1978 film, The End. Captioned at lower margin: "DOM DE LUISE plays Marlon Borunki, who becomes Sonny Lawson's (BURT REYNOLDS) best friend and most dangerous enemy in 'The End,' a United Artists release." ©1978, United Artists Corporation. In the year he signed this photograph, Dom DeLuise was seen in The Last Married Couple in America, Fatso, Wholly Moses and Smokey and the Bandit II on the big screen and appeared as himself on a TV special, Ann-Margaret: Hollywood Movie Girls. Comic actor Dom DeLuise (1933-2009) has appeared on Broadway and on the big and small screens. His feature films include The Glass-Bottom Boat (1966), The Twelve Chairs (1970), Blazing Saddles (1974), Silent Movie (1976), The Muppet Movie (1979), History of the World - Part 1 (1981), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), Spaceballs (1987) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and DeLuise also hosted a weekly summer variety program on TV. A lifelong opera buff, DeLuise has been given the opportunity from time to time to perform with various opera companies. In 1995, he brought down the house at New York's Metropolitan in the role of Frosh the Jailer in Die Fledermaus. Lightly creased at upper edge. Fine condition.