FAY COMPTON - PICTURE POST CARD SIGNED - HFSID 55444
Sale Price $255.00
Reg. $300.00
FAY COMPTON
Sultry post card photograph of the London-born actress.
Postcard Photograph signed: "Fay Compton". B/w, 3½x5½. British post
card in the "Picturegoer" series. Photograph by Dorothy Wilding (imprinted at
lower right margin). Not filled in or stamped on verso. Name imprinted at lower
margin. London-born stage, screen and television actress Fay Compton
(1894-1978), born Virginia Lilian Emmeline Mackenzie Compton, made her film
debut in 1914 (She Stoops to Conquer), and she would go on to appear in
some fifty films through 1970 (The Virgin and the Gypsy). Her
credits include The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots (1923), Robinson
Crusoe (1927), Waltzes from Vienna (1934), Nicholas Nickleby
(1947), Doublecross (1956) and The Haunting (1963), and Compton
also appeared on TV series, made-for-TV movies and in the
popular 1967 miniseries, The Forsyte Saga. The daughter of
stage actors Edward Compton and Virginia Bateman, Compton was the sister
of actress Viola Compton and novelist Sir Compton MacKenzie and the
mother of director/writer Anthony Pelissier (her son with her fourth
husband, H.G. Pelissier). Slightly creased at blank margins and at upper left
corner. ¼-inch tear at lower blank margin. Slightly soiled on verso. Fine
condition.
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