SIR ALEC GUINNESS - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1952 - HFSID 289042
Sale Price $595.00
Reg. $700.00
ALEC GUINNESS
Shown seated in tie and jacket, inscribed in person to collector Saul
Goodman
Photograph inscribed and signed: "Best wishes/to Saul,/Alec Guinness".
B/w, 8x10. Collector's ink stamp on verso dates signature July 4, 1952. Alec
Guinness (1914-2000) appeared in the stage and screen versions of Dickens'
Great Expectations (1939, 1946). He also portrayed eight members of one
family in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). Winner of the Best Actor
Academy Award for The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), the versatile
Sir Alec later portrayed such figures as Arabian Prince Faisal, Roman Emperor
Marcus Aurelius, English King Charles I, Adolph Hitler and Sigmund Freud, not to
mention Marley's Ghost. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Guinness found
renewed popularity with his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the first Star
Wars film trilogy (1977, 1980 and 1983). He played John LeCarré's
crafty spymaster George Smiley in two BBC miniseries (1979, 1982) based on
the novels Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People.
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
creases, surface marks and spots to emulsion. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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