WALTER PIDGEON - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CO-SIGNED BY: LEE BOWMAN - HFSID 320719

WALTER PIDGEON and LEE BOWMAN
Actors pose together smoking cigarettes in candid photograph, sign their names in black ink
Photograph signed: "Walter Pidgeon" and "Lee Bowman" in black ink. B/w, 5x3½. Canadian actor Walter Pidgeon (1898-1984), who had his first leading roles in silent films, earned Best Actor Academy Award nominations for Mrs. Miniver (1942) and Madame Curie (1943). He had prominent roles in many other successful films, including How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Forbidden Planet (1956), Advise and Consent (1962) and Funny Girl (1968). Pidgeon received a Tony nomination as Best Actor in a Musical for Take Me Along (1960). Stage and screen Lee Bowman (1914-1979) was often cast as a playboy because of his good looks and dapper style, but he could play action roles too. He usually played second leads. Among his best known films were Love Affair (1939), Bataan (1943) and Smash-Up (1947). He played the title role in the TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950-1951). In 1974, Bowman formed Kingstree Media Group to advise politicians and business leaders on facing the mass media, stressing the "conversational approach" to the camera. Clients included the Republican Congressional campaign committees and Bethlehem Steel Corp. Corners and edges worn. Lightly stained in bottom margin. Light surface creases. Otherwise, fine condition.