STEPIN FETCHIT - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 287819
Price: $380.00
STEPIN FETCHIT
Shown with Will Rogers in still from The County
Chairman
Postcard Photograph signed: "Stepin Fetchit", in green ink.
B/w 5½x4¼. Shown with Will Rogers in movie still from The County
Chairman (1935, incorrectly listed as 1931 on the card's print). Postcard
also bears Fetchit's facsimile signature. 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. Adhesive and paper residue (previous mounting) on verso. Toned
and chipped at edges and corners. Lightly creased.
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