EARL HOLLIMAN - INSCRIBED LOBBY CARD SIGNED - HFSID 269574

EARL HOLLIMAN. Lobby Card inscribed and signed: "To Claude Wallace -/Earl Holliman". Color, 14x11. Promoting the 1956 film, The Rainmaker, which co-starred Holliman in his Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor winning-role as Jim Curry. ©1956, Paramount Pictures Corporation. The film, which was nominated for two Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Katharine Hepburn and a nomination for Best Drama or Comedy Score, also starred Burt Lancaster and co-starred Wendell Corey, Lloyd Bridges and Cameron Prud'homme. In the year he made this film, Holliman was also seen on the big screen in Forbidden Planet, Giant, Westward Ho, the Wagons! and The Burning Hills. Best known for his role as Lieutenant Bill Crowley on the weekly series, Police Woman (1974-1978), screen and television actor Earl Holliman turned in impressive work on many live TV anthologies during the 1950s. His performance as a shipwrecked Marine in a 1958 Kraft Theatre production led to his being cast in Twilight Zone's pilot episode, "Where is Everybody?" (1959). Holliman has also starred in a number of made-for-TV movies as well as feature films, including The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and Sharky's Machine (1981). Lightly creased, diagonal creast at the "C" of Claude and the "l" of Earl. Slightly soiled at blank margins. Tack hole at upper right blank corner, nick at upper left blank edge. Fine condition.