SIR ALEC GUINNESS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 53919
Price: $400.00
ALEC GUINNESS. Photograph signed: "Alec Guinness". B/w,
7½x9½. Metro-Goldywn-Mayer publicity photograph. Imprinted "1969" at lower
right. Although Guinness did not make any films in 1969, he had appeared in
M-G-M's The Comedians two years earlier. Cast in Shakespearean roles
in Sir John Gielgud's company (from 1934), British actor 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). Lightly creased. Light
impression of writing on verso (not evident head on) at facial image. Overall,
fine condition.
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