ED WYNN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH 1936 - HFSID 22147
Price: $260.00
ED WYNN
B/w publicity photo from MGM of Ed Wynn as Texaco's Fire Chief,
signed in blue in 1936
Photograph signed "Ed Wynn" in blue ink. B/w, 7¾x10 overall,
7¼x9¼ image, one surface. Captioned in bottom left corner: "ED WYNN -
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer". Wynn brought his Fire Chief character from radio to the
silver screen in MGM's The Chief (1933). In 1936, he had an uncredited
part as a joke writer who steals a joke from someone he heard on the radio -
himself - in Warner Brother's Wash Your Step. On April 26, 1931, Wynn
(1886-1966), born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, 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. Lightly toned, soiled,
creased and rippled. Rounded corners. Otherwise in fine
condition.
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