MILTON BERLE - AUTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: RODDY McDOWALL - HFSID 28813
Sale Price $85.00
Reg. $100.00
MILTON BERLE and RODDY McDOWELL
Both sign the same side of a 5x3 sheet.
Signatures: "Milton Berle" and "Roddy McDowell", 5x3
irregularly cut paper. With the encouragement of the quintessential
stage-mother, Milton Berle (1908-2002) played small supporting roles in
silents, including the part of a newsboy in the first-ever feature-length
comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), starring Charlie Chaplin.
Berle then moved into vaudeville and became a headliner, with occasional
stopovers on Broadway and in Hollywood, into the WWII years. His lengthy
starring role in the 1943 edition of Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies
established him as a star. After only moderate success on radio and in
films, Berle made a spectacular television debut as star of NBC's Texaco
Star Theatre in 1948, dominating the airwaves on Tuesday nights until 1956.
He became known as "Mr. Television" and was everyone's "Uncle Miltie".
RODDY McDowall's arrival in Hollywood came when he tested for the
juvenile lead in Fox's How Green Was My Valley (1941), winning both the
role and a long contract. McDowall's first adult acting assignment was as
Malcolm in Orson Welles' 1948 film version of Macbeth. The actor spent
the better part of the early 1960s playing Octavius in the mammoth production
Cleopatra (Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor), co-starring
with longtime friend Elizabeth Taylor. An accomplished photographer, McDowall
was honored by having his photos of Taylor and other celebrities frequently
published in the leading magazines of the era. McDowall's most frequent
assignments between 1968 and 1975 found him in elaborate simian makeup as
Cornelius in the Planet of the Apes theatrical films and TV series.
Slightly creased. Typed text on verso shows through slightly at both signatures,
else fine condition.
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