MARY ASTOR - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1940 - HFSID 289077
Price: $700.00
MARY ASTOR
Studio photo in sleeveless gown, inscribed in person to collector Saul
Goodman
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Saul/Mary Astor". B/w, 8x10.
Captioned in loer margin. Collector's ink stamp on verso dates signature:
September 11, 1940. Mary Astor (1906-1987) had a successful silent
screen career, costarring with John Barrymore in Beau Brummell (1923)
and Don Juan (1926). Her career was threatened by tabloid scandals in the
1930s, including a very contentious divorce, but she moved on to even greater
film success in the talking era. She won the 1941 Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress for portraying chain-smoking concert pianist Sandra Kovak
in Warner Bros.' The Great Lie, which starred Bette Davis. That
same year, she costarred with Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese
Falcon. She wrote five novels; her autobiography and subsequent film
memoir were both best sellers. 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. Scattered vertical creases, mainly to lower portion of
image, two lightly touching signature. A few other light creases, else fine
condition.
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