JAMES "JIMMY" STEWART - PHOTOGRAPH MOUNT SIGNED 1991 CO-SIGNED BY: GINGER ROGERS - HFSID 261922

JAMES "JIMMY" STEWART and GINGER ROGERS
James "Jimmy" Stewart and Ginger Rogers sign a black and white photograph of them in 1940.
Photograph Mount inscribed and signed: "To Peter Paul/With admiration/Jimmy Stewart" and "To Peter Paul -/Much gratitude and love,/Ginger Rogers 1991". B/w, 10¾x13½, matted to 16¾x20¾. Photograph, color, 4x5¾, of Stewart signing this photograph affixed to verso of display. Although this photograph was signed at later dates by both stars, it depicts them in 1940, when Stewart won the Best Actor Academy Award for The Philadelphia Story and Rogers took home the Best Actress Oscar for Kitty Foyle. JAMES "JIMMY" STEWART (1908-1997) starred in more recognized masterpieces of the American cinema than any other actor. In 1940, he won the Best Actor Academy Award for The Philadelphia Story,and he was nominated for Oscars in the same category for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), It's A Wonderful Life (1946), Harvey (1950) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Stewart was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1984. A major film star of the 1930s and 1940s, GINGER ROGERS (1911-1995) was usually sought for musicals and comedies, but she earned a Best Actress Oscar in the dramatic title role of Kitty Foyle (1940). She is best remembered as the dance partner of Fred Astaire, with whom she starred in ten films. Paper backing creased and torn. Framed, not in the Gallery of History style: 17½x21¼. Not reviewed by us for conservation integrity. "As is" framing purchase.