1920s - 1930s autograph collection - non - sports

[RichardSimon]

I have just made a great find. Four autograph books and a number of letters and pictures circa late1920's - 1930's.
Purchased from the family of the original collector, a lady named Elizabeth Dennis.
The collection was so amazing that the Wichita Beacon wrote an article about the collection and the lady.
The collection was obtained by writing to the celebrity and enclosing an autograph album page for the person to sign.
Most of the pages have a very light vertical fold down the center. Pages measure 4x6.
Some of the celebrities answered with a letter, a few sent a signed picture.
I will be listing many of the autographs here on ebay.
This collection contained historical figures, music figures, movie stars, theater stars and writers.
Nice vintage autographs mostly signed during the prime of their careers during the 1920s and 1930s.

write to me at richsprt@aol.com with any orders or questions. Scans available.

<p><b>AA means Academy Award winner
<ul>
<li>Maude Adams (Peter Pan) 150
<li>Jean Arthur (Capra films and Shane) 125
<li>Gene Austin (My Blue Heaven) 100
<li>John Barrymore 100
<li>Warner Baxter (Cisco Kid) 100
<li>Irving Berlin 125
<li>Clara Bow (The It Girl) 200
<li>Fanny Brice (Funny Girl based on her life) 100
<li>Billie Burke, good witch Glinda in Wizard of Oz, full handwritten letter 300
<li>Richard E. Byrd (signed R. E. Byrd) 100
<li>Eddie Cantor (actor and singer) 100
<li>Helen Chandler (Dracula) 150
<li>Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night, AA winner) 100
<li>Calvin Coolidge White House card signed 200
<li>Grace Coolidge White House card signed 100
<li>Joan Crawford (AA winner) 150
<li>Dolores Del Rio (the quintessential Mexican film star) 150
<li>Marlene Dietrich (exotic star actress and singer) 150
<li>John Drew (Shakespearean actor) (this is John Drew Jr) 100
<li>Douglas Fairbanks 100
<li>Douglas Fairbanks Jr 25
<li>James Montgomery Flagg (famed illustrator, Uncle Sam I Want You) (slight skip in sig) 100
<li>George Gershwin 400
<li>Charles Dana Gibson (famed illustrator, The Gibson Girl) 100
<li>Hoot Gibson (western star) 100
<li>William Gillette (Sherlock Holmes) 100
<li>Lillian Gish (Birth of a Nation) 150
<li>Zane Grey (western author, slight blot on sig.) 100
<li>Lou Henry Hoover (First Lady, signed White House card) 200
<li>De Wolf Hopper (Casey at the Bat) 125
<li>Walter Huston (AA winner Treasure of Sierra Madre) 100
<li>Emil Jennings 100
<li>Al Jolson (The Jazz Singer) 100
<li>Buck Jones (western actor) 100
<li>George Kaufman (playwright You Can't Take It With You) 100
<li>J. M. Kerrigan (Gone With The Wind) 75
<li>Thomas Lipton (founder Lipton Tea Co and yachtsman) 100
<li>Natalie Moorhead (film and stage actress) 100
<li>Paul Muni (AA winner, The Story of Louis Pasteur, Tony winner for Inherit The Wind) 100
<li>Mary Pickford (America's sweetheart, AA winner for Coquette) 100
<li>Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) 200
<li>Eddie Rickenbacker (famed WWI aviator,Rickenbacker was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross a record eight times. One of these awards was converted in 1930 to the Medal of Honor.) 100
<li>Paul Robeson (famed black singer and actor) 100
<li>Will Rogers (pencil sig) 150
<li>Peggy Shannon 125
<li>John Philip Sousa (famed bandmaster and composer) 300
<li>Barbara Stanwyck 100
<li>William H. Taft President 175
<li>Lou Tellegen 100
<li>Lupe Velez (Mexican actress, The Mexican Spitfire) 100
<li>Ethel Waters (black actress, singer and author) 125
<li>Ana May Wong (the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star) 200
<li>Fay Wray (King Kong) 100
<li>Flo Ziegfeld 125
</ul>
<p><b>$75 each. Buy three or more for $60 each.
<ul>
<li>Hardie Albright
<li>Lew Ayres
<li>Vilma Banky
<li>Richard Barthalmess
<li>Noah Beery
<li>Evelyn Brent
<li>Mary Brian
<li>Dolores Costello
<li>Marian Davies
<li>Edgar Guest - typed letter signed
<li>Texas Guinan
<li>John Halliday
<li>Lars Hanson
<li>Phillips Holmes
<li>Rupert Hughes
<li>Fannie Hurst
<li>Dorothy Jordan
<li>Harold Lloyd
<li>Myrna Loy
<li>Paul Lukas
<li>Jeanette MacDonald
<li>Fredric March
<li>Marilyn Miller
<li>Colleen Moore
<li>Edna May Oliver
<li>William Powell
<li>Edward G. Robinson
<li>Mary Roberts Rinehart
<li>Norma Shearer
<li>Sylvia Sidney
<li>Otis Skinner
<li>Alfred E. Smith - Presidential candidate
<li>Dorothy Stone
<li>Norma Talmadge
<li>Sophie Tucker
<li>Ed Wynn
</ul>
<p><b>$50 each. Buy three or more for $40 each.
<ul>
<li>George Ade
<li>Frank Albertson
<li>Michael Arlen
<li>Richard Arlen
<li>Phil Baker
<LI>Tallulah Bankhead
<li>Richard Bennett
<li>Sidney Blackmer
<li>John Boles
<li>Irene Bardoni
<li>Alice Brady
<li>El Brendel
<li>Clive Brook
<li>Joe E. Brown
<li>John Mack Brown
<li>Jack Buchanan
<li>Leo Carrillo
<li>Nancy Carroll
<li>Maurice Chevalier
<li>Marguerite Churchill
<li>Mae Clarke
<li>Irvin S. Cobb
<li>Ronald Coleman
<li>William Collier
<li>Walter Connelly
<li>Jackie Coogan
<li>Frank Craven
<li>Bing Crosby
<li>Rachel Crothers
<li>Bebe Daniels
<li>Charles G. Dawes - Coolidge VP
<li>Janet Gaynor - first AA
<li>Grace George
<li>John Gilbert
<li>Edgar Guest
<li>Raymond Hackett
<li>William Haines
<li>Walter Hampden
<li>Ann Harding
<li>Richard B. Harrison
<li>Ernestine Schumann Heink
<li>Jobyna Howland
<li>George Jessel
<li>Elsie Janis
<li>James Kirkwood
<li>Otto Kruger
<li>Rod La Roque
<li>Gertrude Lawrence
<li>Evelyn Lane
<li>Thurlow Lieurance
<li>Winnie Lightner
<li>Little Jack Little
<li>Bert Lytell
<li>David Manners
<li>John McCormack
<li>Joel McCrea
<li>Thomas Meighan
<li>Adolphe Menjou
<li>Una Merkel
<li>Robert Montgomery
<li>Grace Moore
<li>Lois Moran
<li>Helen Morgan
<li>Marian Nixon
<li>Jack Oakie
<li>George O'Brien
<li>Maureen O'Sullivan
<li>Anita Page
<li>Blanche Ring
<li>May Robson
<li>Charles Rogers
<li>Ginger Rogers
<li>Ruth Roland
<li>Lillian Roth
<li>Charles Ruggles
<li>Charles Chic Sale
<li>Vivienne Segal
<li>Ted Shawn
<li>Cornelia Otis Skinner
<li>Stanley Smith
<li>E. H. Sothern
<li>Lilyan Tashman
<li>Lawrence Tibbett
<li>H. B. Warner
<li>Alexander Woollcott
<li>Roland Young
<li>Blanche Yurka
<li>Ferdinand Zegel
</ul>
<p><b>$25 each. Buy three or more for $20 each.
<ul>
<li>Renee Adoree
<li>George Arliss
<li>Lady Nancy Astor
<li>Philip Barry
<li>Constance Bennett
<li>Holbrook Blinn
<li>Joan Blondell
<li>Eleanor Boardman
<li>Heyward Broun -typed letter signed
<li>Ruth Chatterton
<li>Bernice Clair
<li>June Collyer
<li>Katherine Carroll
<li>Jane Cowl
<li>Owen Davis
<li>Sally Eilers
<li>Florence Eldridge
<li>John Emerson
<li>Leon Errol
<li>Stuart Erwin
<li>Madge Evans
<li>Amelita Galli-Curci
<li>Skeets Gallagher
<li>Floyd Gibbons
<li>Gavin Gordon
<li>Charlotte Greenwood
<li>Percy Hammond
<li>Marion Harris
<li>Rose Hobart
<li>Harriet Hoctor
<li>Jack Holt
<li>Hedda Hopper
<li>Helen Kane
<li>Doris Keane
<li>Fred Keating
<li>George Kelly
<li>Madge Kennedy
<li>Harry Lauder
<li>Dorothy Lee
<li>Lila Lee
<li>Ted Lewis
<li>Beatrice Lillie
<li>Anita Loos
<li>Edmond Lowe
<li>Alfred Lunt
<li>Guy Lombardo
<li>Ben Lyon
<li>Dorothy Mackaye
<li>Diana Manners
<li>R> B. Mantell
<li>Paul McCullough
<li>O. O. McIntyre
<li>Polly Moran
<li>Chester Morris
<li>Zelma O'Neal
<li>Harry Owens
<li>Monroe Owsley
<li>Eugene Pallette
<li>Brock Pemberton
<li>Channing Pollock
<li>Eddie Quillan
<li>Dorothy Revier
<li>James Rennie
<li>Harry Richman
<li>Arthur Somers Roche
<li>Ann Seymour
<li>Oscar Shaw
<li>Catherine Smith (wife of Al Smith)
<li>Frances Starr
<li>Lewis Stone
<li>Marion Talley
<li>Albert Payson Terhune
<li>Genevieve Tobin
<li>Regis Toomey
<li>Ernest Truex
<li>Jim Tully
<li>David Warfield
<li>Alice White
<li>Bert Wheeler
<li>Paul Whiteman
<li>Walker Whiteside
<li>Louis Wolheimn
<li>Peggy Wood
<li>Robert Woolsey
</ul>

[todeen]

I know the Pres. and Lady Coolidge are on WH cards. What's the Pres Taft signature on?

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