LEW AYRES - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 1981 - HFSID 345763
Price: $260.00
LEW AYRES
This large 13x10 black and white photograph from the film People vs. Doctor
Kildare is signed by the star actor
Photograph Inscribed and Signed: “To Harold Merry / Kindest regards / Lew Ayres
1981 / Photo 1938?” 13x10. B/w. Depicts Ayres alongside costar Laraine Day in
the 1941 film People vs. Dr. Kildare. Lew Ayres (1908-1996) starred opposite
Greta Garbo in one of the last silent films, The Kiss (1929), and then starred in
the 1930 Oscar-winning talking film, All Quiet on the Western Front. A
leading man through the 1940s, he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in
Johnny Belinda (1948). He starred as Dr. Kildare in a series of feature films,
but refused to play the role on television because cigarettes were to be
advertised on the program. Misidentified as a conscientious objector because
of his desire to serve as a combat medic, Ayers was temporarily blacklisted in
Hollywood during World War II. He remained active in movie and television
character roles through the 1980s, but he never achieved the same level of
popularity he had in the period just before WWII. In 1982, Ayres guest starred
on episodes of Knots Landing, Trapper John, M.D. and Little House on the
Prairie. The actor was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in
1960. Lightly bowed. Otherwise, fine condition.
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