NORMA SHEARER - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: HERBERT MARSHALL - HFSID 289833

NORMA SHEARER and HERBERT MARSHALL
Shown together during a CBS Radio broadcast, signed in person for collector Saul Goodman
Photograph signed: "Norma Shearer", "Herbert Marshall". B/w, 10x8. Collector's ink stamp on verso dates signature: November 23, 1936 and August 16, 1938. Canadian actress NORMA SHEARER (1903-1983) won one Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1929-1930) and was nominated for five more: Their Own Desire (1929), A Free Soul (1930), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Marie Antoinette (1938). She was married to MGM producer Irving Thalberg until his early death in 1936. Shearer turned down the starring role in Mrs. Miniver (1942); the part was offered to Greer Garson, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Mrs. Miniver. By some accounts, Shearer did the same for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939). She retired from films after 1942. British actor HERBERT MARSHALL (1890-1966) got his start on the stage in 1911 and became a star in 1913's Brewster's Millions. He suffered amputation of his leg while serving with the London Scottish Regiment in World War I. But the loss of a leg didn't slow down his career a bit; he just got fitted for a prosthesis and continued acting. Marshall had a total of 6 Broadway plays between 1922 and 1932 and a total of 90 movies and TV shows between 1927 and 1965, first as a romantic lead and later in character roles. He's probably best known as Geoffrey Wolfe in The Moon and Sixpence (1943) and author W. Somerset Maugham in The Razor's Edge (1946), both films based on Maugham's works. 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. Notches at top and bottom edges. Toned with light surface creases. Ink printing on verso. Corners worn. Otherwise, fine condition.