(ENTERTAINERS--ACTORS--1940S.) Group of 8 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed: Katharine Hepburn * Gregory Peck * Gypsy Rose Lee * Gloria Swanson * Boris Karloff (2) * Roy Rogers * Tallulah Bankhead. Hepburn. Playbill for the 1950 production of As You Like It. Signed on cover at lower right. 32 pages. 8vo, wrappers, staple binding; scattered remnants of adhesive touching portrait. Peck. Photograph, bust portrait showing him as a young man. Signed in image at lower right. 10x8 inches; horizontal crease with minor loss to portrait. Lee. Photograph, "Greetings!" bust portrait by Maurice Seymour showing her with bare shoulders and fingers touching her face. Inscribed in image at lower left. 8x10 inches; few minor creases at left edge. Swanson. Photograph, "To Clifford Larkin / good wishes," bust portrait showing her facing camera and looking away. Inscribed in image at lower right. 7x5 inches. Karloff (2). Photographs, each "Sincerely," bust portrait showing him smirking or smiling. Each inscribed in image at lower center. Each 7x5 inches; second with minor creases and soiling to lower edge. Rodgers. "To Clifford / Always our best / RoyRodgers / & / Trigger," bust portrait showing him and Trigger. Inscribed in image at upper left. 8x10 inches; moderate scattered soiling, few small scattered abrasions touching portrait, minor abrasion at upper right corner. Bankhead. Photograph, "Best Wishes," bust portrait by Hubert Mitchell, showing her wearing hat and looking up. Inscribed in image at lower right. 10x8 inches; minor soiling at upper edge. Np, nd