Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(ENTERTAINERS.) Group of 30 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed. Format and condition vary. Vp, vd

Additional Details

Julie Andrews. PS, bust portrait by Zoe Dominic. Signed in the image. 7x5 inches • George Arliss. ANS, "Mr. Arliss" in third person, declining Mr. Halpern's request. ½ page, small 4to, personal stationery. "Warner Bros," 10 January 1931 • Peggy Ashcroft. PS, image of graphite drawing, bust portrait. Signed in the image. 5½x3½ inches • Fred Astaire. Signature and date, on small card. 2¼x3 inches. 1980 • Alan Bates. PS, bust portrait. Signed in the image. 6x4 inches • George Burns. PS, half-length portrait. Signed in the image. 10x8 inches • Judi Dench. IPS, "With best wishes," bust portrait by Jane Brown. Inscribed in the image. 4¼x5¾ inches • Joan Fontaine. Signature, on a card below clipping from magazine. 4x5¾ inches, yellow ruled paper. [19 April 1981] • Lynne Fontanne. Signature, on a card above portrait clipped from magazine. 3x5 inches • Margot Fonteyn. Autograph inscription Signed, "With best wishes / Love," on album leaf. 4x5 inches. 1950 • Janet Gaynor. Signature, on album leaf below portrait clipped from magazine. 4x5¾ inches; verso signed by Dick Contino • John Gielgud. Photograph postcard dated and Signed, bust portrait. Signed in the image at upper left. 5x3½ inches; slight fading to signature. 1931 • Lillian Gish. Autograph inscription Signed, "'In remembrance'," on a slip of paper. 9x5¾ inches • Rex Harrison. Small PS, half-length portrait. Signed in image at upper left. 4x2½ inches. [31 December 1946] • Olivia de Havilland. Signature, on a small card. 3x5 inches • Helen Hayes (2). TLS, to Lucrezia Bori, declining an invitation due to a rehearsal with her daughter Mary; and an ALS, "Helen," to Romney Brent, complaining that theater keeps getting worse, and remarking that Tennessee Williams's new play closed after one week [Slackstick Tragedy]. Together 3 pages, 8vo or square 12mo. Np, 31 May 1946; [Nyack], 1 March 1966 • Deborah Kerr. PS, bust portrait. Signed vertically in image at right edge. 6x4 inches • Alfred Lunt. ALS, "Alfred," to Romney Brent, praising his excellent letter and another he sent to Lynn [Fontanne]. 1 page, 4to, personal stationery. Genesee Depot, 2 December 1965 • Mary Martin. IPS, "Love--" half-length portrait. Inscribed in the image. 5x4 inches • Giulietta Masina. IPS, "A Thomas sincera-- / mente," bust portrait. Inscribed in the image. 5¾x4 inches • Ethel Merman. IPS, "To / Mrs. Lloyd H. Stutzman / With best wishes," bust portrait. Inscribed in the image. 7x5 inches. Np, [5 April 1963?] • Vivien Leigh & Laurence Olivier. Album leaf Signed by both. Additionally Signed by John Gielgud. 1 page, 16mo; marginal discoloration from prior matting. Np, [29 September 1938] • Laurence Olivier (2). Photograph postcard Signed and Inscribed, "Best wishes," bust portrait. Inscribed in the image. 5¼x3¼ inches; and TLS, "LOlivier," to Walter Gerson, looking forward to meeting in New York. 1 page, 8vo, personal stationery. Np, nd; [London], 4 November 1946 • Eleanor Powell. Album leaf Signed and Inscribed, "'To / Rose'," in green ink. 1 page, 12mo • Ginger Rogers. IPS, "Blessings," in brown ink, bust portrait. Inscribed in the image. 7x5 inches • Shirley Temple. TLS, "Shirley Temple Black," as U.S. Chief of Protocol, to Seymour Halpern, thanking for congratulations. With 4-line holograph postscript Signed, "S," sending regards. 1 page, 4to, "Chief of Protocol" stationery. Washington, 13 October 1976 • Ellen Terry. ANS, in purple ink, on verso of her printed visiting card. Additionally inscribed, "With pleasure" on recto. 1¼x3 inches. New York, 1885 • Esther Willaims. Signature, on a slip of paper. Additionally signed by Joan Caulfield, on verso. 2¼x5 inches. Np, 1940s.