FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 76353
Sale Price $680.00
Reg. $800.00
FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN
10¾x13¾ sepia hue publicity photograph of Francis Bushman in a suit and tie.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To friend Moeller/with sincere wishes for Success/Gratefully/Francis X. Bushman", Sepia, 10¾x13¾. Stamped Edward Thayer Monroe at lower right blank margin. A former sculptor's model, Francis Xavier Bushman (1883-1966) had a beautiful physique which, combined with his handsome looks, propelled him to stardom in pre-20s silent movies. Known as "the handsomest man in the world" and the first film actor to be called "King of the Movies", he starred in 115 silent films between 1911 and 1914, including his most famous role, Messala in Ben-Hur (1925). Bushman made more than a million dollars a year during the silent era, but lost his fortune in the Crash of 1929. After 1930, he appeared in feature films sporadically, but became a star of radio soap operas. Bushman, who later appeared in David and Bathsheba (1951), Sabrina (1954), The Story of Mankind (1957) and Twelve to the Moon (1960), made his last film, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, in 1966, the year of his death. Lightly chipped at blank edges. Stamped on verso "Photograph by/Edward Thayer Monroe, N. Y" (no show through). Overall, fine condition.
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