RICHARD BARTHELMESS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 292193
Price: $625.00
RICHARD BARTHELMESS
10x13½ photo, inscribed for the famed collection of Warner Bros. executive "Doc"
Salomon
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Doc/With my very best/Richard Barthelmess". Sepia,
10x13½. Silent film star Richard Barthelmess (1895-1963) was cast by D. W. Griffith
opposite Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920). He was
nominated for the first Academy Award for Best Actor for 1927-1928 for his
performances in two films, The Noose and The Patent Leather Kid. He quit films to join
the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942, the year his last film, The Mayor of 44th St. was released,
and never returned to Hollywood, living off his investments instead. A. M. "Doc" Salomon,
a friend of studio mogul Jack Warner, who rose to head the London branch of Warner Bros.
studios, compiled an extensive collection of celebrity autographs during his nearly 30 years
with the studio. A V-1 rocket demolished his London studio in July 1944 and killed
Salomon, but his photo collection miraculously survived. Light silvering. Minor ink lose at
signature. Heavy mounting residue on verso. Corners lightly worn and creased. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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