VIRGINIA O'BRIEN - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 342176
Price: $140.00
VIRGINIA O'BRIEN
The actress and singer poses in a "Mayor of Wrightwood" sash in 4x6
candid photograph, signs name in blue ink
Inscribed photograph signed: "To Clint,/ Love/ Virginia/
O'Brien" in blue ink. Color, 4x6. Stage, screen and television actress and
singer Virginia O'Brien (1919-2001) got her big break in 1939, when she
appeared in the Los Angeles stage production of Meet the People.
Paralyzed with stage fright, she sang the words to her song with a zombie-like
expression that delighted the crowd (who thought it was part of the show) and
resulted in O'Brien being known to some fans as "Miss Deadpan". O'Brien,
who reprised her role in the 1944 film version of the play, was signed by MGM in
1940, and appeared in a number of other MGM musicals, including
Thousands Cheer (1943), DuBarry Was a Lady (1943), The Harvey
Girls(1946) and Ziegfeld Follies (1946). After leaving MGM, she
appeared in only two more films, Francis in the Navy (1955) and Walt
Disney's Gus (1976), preferring to concentrate television and stage work.
O'Brien was married to her second husband, actor Kirk Alyn, from 1942 to
1955. Ink notes on verso in unknown hand. Fine condition.
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