TONY QUINN - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 02/21/1931 CO-SIGNED BY: PHYLLIS NEILSON-TERRY - HFSID 46835

TONY QUINN and PHYLLIS NEILSON-TERRY
Signatures affixed to opposite sides of an album leaf. Neilson-Terry has added a Shakespeare quote.
Autograph Note Signed: "Greetings to a/fellow countryman/Tony Quinn/21-2-31", 4½x2½, "'Heaven give you/many many merry/days/Phyllis Neilson-Terry", 4½x3¼. Slips affixed to opposite sides of a 7½x5¼ album leaf. Irish stage, film and television actor TONY QUINN (1899-1967) appeared with the Irish Players in two Sean O'Casey plays on Broadway (1926-1927). He was an early TV actor, appearing in BBC productions in the late 1930s and on ITV into the 1960s. His feature films included The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Quinn's voice was chosen to represent the Irish Midlands in the British Museum's collection of recorded English regional speech. PHYLLIS NEILSON TERRY (1892-1977) came from a renowned English stage family, including parents Fred Terry and Julia Neilson. (She is a cousin of John Gielgud.) She appeared on Broadway over a span of more than forty years, playing the female lead in her parents' production of Romeo and Juliet (1914) and earning a Tony nomination as Best Featured Actress for Separate Tables (1956-1957). Her film career was almost as long. She played the Queen in the silent film Boadicea (1928), and appeared in Look Back in Anger (1959). Toned and worn. Left edge frayed from binding. Corners worn and creased. Otherwise, fine condition.