JOHN HART - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 277447
Price: $160.00
JOHN HART
B/w photo of Hart with actor friends at a suit-and-tie dinner, owned
and signed by him
Photograph signed"John Hart" and, on verso, "Rhoda
Fleming/Dorothy Malone/Scott Brady/Mona Freeman & Husband/John Hart/Late
Forties" and "Dorothy? Malone/Scott Brady/Mona Freeman/Husband/John
Hart" in blue ink. B/w, 10x8. Publicity photo from Movie Stars Parade
Magazine. Hartis shown here behind a dinner buffet with some
of his actor friends. According to notes on the back (written in an unknown
hand), the others in the photo are Rhonda Fleming (Gunfight at the OK
Corral), Dorothy Malone (Sincerely Yours), Scott Brady (El
Alaméin) and Mona Freeman (TV and movie actress) and her husband. American
actor Hart (1917-2009) had over 100 credited and uncredited roles on TV
and the big screen. Baby Boomers probably remember him best as the Lone
Ranger. Hart, who was a cowboy before becoming an actor, had numerous
roles in westerns, including small parts on TV's The Lone Ranger
(1950-1953), before being offered the role in 1952. He replaced
Clayton Moore, the series' original Lone Ranger, for 52 episodes when Moore was
fired for demanding a higher salary. In one interview, Hart claimed that all
52 episodes were shot in a matter of weeks, with each episode taking only two
days to shoot. Hart forged a close relationship with Jay Silverheels, who
played Tonto, and his cowboy training helped him to ride the Lone Ranger's horse
Silver, whom he said was jumpy and difficult to ride. Hart went on to other
roles, including parts on Bat Masterson, Rawhide and Hawkeye
and the Last of the Mohicans. He played another masked hero in The
Adventures of Captain Africa, a Columbia serial intended to be a sequel
to The Phantom but which had its name and hero changed after Columbia
lost the rights to the character. He also played the Lone Ranger for one
episode of Happy Days and was cast as a reporter in The Legend
of the Lone Ranger, the movie adaptation of the Lone Ranger story.
Corners have small folds. Otherwise in fine condition.
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