WALTER SLEZAK - INSCRIBED SIGNATURE - HFSID 22968
Price: $120.00
WALTER SLEZAK
Walter Slezak signs an index card to a fan in black ink.
Inscribed signature: "Walter/Slezak/To Kayo", 4¼x3 with b/w
1½x2 photo attached at left. The son of Metropolitan Opera star Leo Slezak,
20-year-old Walter Slezak (1902-1983, born in Vienna, Austria) entered
show business by chance after meeting director Michael Curtiz, who cast him for
a part in his silent German epic Sodom and Gomorrah (1922). The former
bank clerk continued acting in films and on stage, becoming a Broadway stalwart
in the 1930s. A strong, handsome man in his youth, he gained weight rapidly as
middle age approached, pegging him as a character actor playing both villains
and "teddy bears". Slezak made his American film debut as the Nazi baron in
Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942). In 1955, he won a Tony for his
role in the Broadway production of Fanny and went on to sing at the
Metropolitan Opera. Fine condition.
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