STEPIN FETCHIT - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 09/08/1980 - HFSID 276627

Pensive pose of the first Black actor to receive featured billing in American films. Photograph inscribed and signed: "1980/To/Stepin Fetchit/To Mr Gene Hunt/From Sept-8-80". B/w, 8x10.

Sale Price $625.00

Reg. $750.00

Condition: Lightly creased

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STEPIN FETCHIT
Pensive pose of the first Black actor to receive featured billing in American films.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "1980/To/Stepin Fetchit/To Mr Gene Hunt/From Sept-8-80". B/w, 8x10. In his later years (some sources list Fetchit's birth year as 1892), Fetchit often wrote incoherent inscriptions, such as this one. The first Black actor to become a millionaire, Stepin Fetchit (1902-1985), who debuted in In Old Kentucky (1927), made some 50 films. Born Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, Fetchit had renamed himself before his arrival in Hollywood (in the late 1920s) for a racehorse that won money for him. The first Black actor to receive featured billing in American films, he also composed and wrote the lyrics for the score of One More Spring (1935). Although his screen image is criticized for reinforcing negative stereotypes about Black Americans, Fetchit received a special Image Award from the Hollywood chapter of the NAACP in 1976, and he was elected to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame two years later. Lightly creased at blank margins and corners, three file nicks at blank right edge. Minor surface creases, scratches and striations (most not evident head on). Pencil notes (unknown hand) and tape remnants on verso (no show through). Overall, fine condition.

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