WALTER HUSTON - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1931 - HFSID 292900
Price: $160.00
WALTER HUSTON
Handwritten note collected in Hollywood in 1931
Autograph Note signed: "To Jimmy/With my best wishes/Walter
Huston", 4½x2¾. Ink note (unknown hand) at lower edge: 5/13/31 - Hollywood,
Calif. Canadian-born actor Walter Huston (1884-1950), launched his movie
career with Gentlemen of the Press (1929), and spent the 1930s playing
everything from a Mexican bandit to President Lincoln. In the 1938 Broadway
musical comedy, Knickerbocker Holiday, Huston, in the role of a 17th
century New Amsterdam Governor, achieved theatrical immortality with his
poignant rendition of the show's top tune, "September Song". Throughout the
1940s, he offered a gallery of memorable screen portrayals, from the diabolical
Mr. Scratch in All That Money Can Buy (1941) to George M. Cohan's father
in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Still, it was only after removing his
expensive false teeth and trading his fancy duds for a dusty hobo's outfit that
the actor won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the cackling old
prospector Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), directed by
his son, John Huston. Mounting paper at corners. Bottom corners torn.
Mounting residue on verso. Lightly toned. Otherwise, fine condition.
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