FRANCIS LEDERER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 201903
Price: $240.00
FRANCIS LEDERER
Black and white publicity photograph of an older Francis Lederer
wearing a suit and tie smoking a cigarette.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "Dear Joseph,/I am, deeply
honored/by your loyalty/and most grateful/to you,/Francis Lederer". B/w,
7¼x9. 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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