ED WYNN - AUTOGRAPH 1931 - HFSID 292896
Price: $90.00
ED WYNN
Album leaf, signed the year he debuted on radio as the Texaco Fire
Chief
Signature: "Ed Wynn/1931", 3¾x2¼. Ink note (unknown hand) at
lower edge: 12/17/31 - N.Y., N. Y. On April 26, 1931, Ed Wynn (1886-1966),
made his first appearance as Texaco's "Fire Chief" before a live radio
audience. His popular radio series The Texaco Fire Chief ran from
1932 to 1935. He later starred in CBS's first Los Angeles-based variety show,
The Ed Wynn Show, from Oct. 6, 1949 to July 4, 1950. The show won
the first Emmy Award for "Best Live Show" in 1949, and it would also win
a Peabody Award. Wynn won the first Emmy for Most Outstanding Live
Personality. He later appeared as Albert Dussell in The Diary of Anne
Frank (1959), which earned him a 1960 Oscar nomination as Best
Supporting Actor, and in the TV movie Requiem for a Heavyweight
(1956) with son Keenan Wynn. Paper mounting at corners. Bottom left
corner torn. Ink smeared on "Ed". Lightly toned at corners. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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