WARNER BAXTER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 258076
Sale Price $675.00
Reg. $800.00
WARNER BAXTER
Large 10¾x13¾ sepia-toned bust photo of silent film idol Warner
Baxter, signed with "Every good wish to you"
Inscribed photograph signed "To-/Hal- a swell guy/& a real
artist/Every good wish to you./Warner Baxter". B/w sepia-toned, 10¾x13¾
overall, 10¼x13¼ image, one surface, printed on textured cardstock. Former
vaudeville performer, Broadway actor and silent film matinee idol
Baxter (1889-1951, born Warner Leroy Baxter in Columbus, Ohio) won the
1930 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for playing the Cisco Kid in
the 1928 film In Old Arizona. Baxter, who had broken into silents
with a bit part in 1914, would go on to appear in nearly 100 films,
including Miss Brewster's Millions (1926), The Great Gatsby
(1926), Ramona (1928), The Arizona Kid (1930), Daddy Long
Legs (1931), The Cisco Kid (1931), 42nd Street (1933),
Dangerously Yours (1933), The Prisoner of Shark Island
(1936), Kidnapped (1938), Return of the Cisco Kid (1939), Lady
in the Dark (1944) and a series of Crime Doctor films
(appearing as Dr. Robert Ordway from 1943 to 1949). Lightly toned, silvered,
bowed and rippled. Adhesive residue near bottom right corner. Light scratches on
image. Adhesive residue on verso (no show-through). Otherwise in fine
condition.
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