HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1936 - HFSID 289374
Sale Price $252.00
Reg. $280.00
HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS
Vintage photo, signed as "Helen Gahagan" in her acting days, before
she entered politics, inscribed in person to collector Saul Goodman
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Saul/Helen Gahagan". B/w,
8x10. Collector's ink stamp on verso dates signature: November 3, 1936. Helen
Gahagan (1909-1981) starred in Broadway musicals of the 1920s before marrying
actor Melvyn Douglas in 1931. She made only one feature film,
She (1933, based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard). A Democrat, she
was elected to Congress in 1944, and soon began a rather open affair with
Congressional colleague Lyndon Johnson (both spouses had remained in their
home states). In 1950, she ran for a US Senate seat from California against
Richard Nixon. It was a very nasty campaign, with Nixon calling Douglas "the
Pink Lady," "pink right down to her underwear," while she became the first to
call Nixon "Tricky Dick." (Nixon won, with 59% of the vote, and became Vice
President two years later.) Saul Goodman (1919-2003), a New York business
man by day, pursued his love of film and theatre in the evening, making friends
with many celebrities. While other autograph seekers offered album leaves,
Goodman presented stars with snazzy photographs, a rarity then, to sign in
fountain pen. Corners worn and creased. Lightly toned around edges.
Otherwise, Fine condition.
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