FRANCIS LEDERER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 20025
Price: $280.00
FRANCIS LEDERER
Black and white publicity photograph of an older Francis Lederer in a
suit and tie.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "Dear Mr. and/Mrs. Roosevelt,
I/appreciate very much/your kind interest/Francis Lederer". B/w, 7¾x10.
Francis Lederer (1899-2000, born Frantisek Lederer in Prague, Bohemia,
Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic) was an American actor with over 60
movies and TV shows to his credit. Lederer got his start on the stage and
in the German film industry, where he was billed as Franz Lederer and was
amajor star.He debuted on Broadway in 1932, the first of
four Broadway appearances, where he was "discovered" and brought to Hollywood.
He specialized in roles as an outgoing, naïve foreigner manipulated by
Englishmen or Americans in such films as Man of Two Worlds (1934),
Romance in Manhattan (1934) and One Rainy Afternoon (1936),
graduating to roles as villains, cynics, sophisticated scoundrels and even a
turn as Dracula in The Return of Dracula (1958). One of his best
performances was in Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), where he played a
disgruntled member of the German American Bund. He retired from films in
1958, having made his fortune in real estate. Fine
condition.
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