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Rory Calhoun (born Francis Timothy McCown, but known as "Frank") was a movie and TV actor from the 1940s to the 1990s. He was born in 1922 in Los Angeles, and he had many jobs before becoming an actor, including as a boxer, a lumberjack, a truck driver and a cowpuncher. He also became a car thief, and he spent three years in a reformatory while a teenager (which was covered up for many years). He was discovered by agent Sue Carol in the early 1940s, and his first movie was as an uncredited soldier in "Something For the Boys" in 1944, billed as "Frank McCown". David O. Selznick hired him and changed his name to Rory Calhoun, and in the early 1950s, he had substantial success, including in two movies with Marilyn Monroe, River of No Return and How to Marry a Millionaire. In 1955, his agent, in response to Confidential magazine threatening to expose Rock Hudson's homosexuality, agreed to tell them about Mr. Calhoun's criminal background in exchange for their silence on Mr. Hudson, and they printed the expose, but fortunately, it did not have much negative effect on Mr. Calhoun's career! In 1959 to 1960, he starred in TV's "The Texan". His career stalled after that, and in 1970, he divorced his actress wife Lita Baron, whom he had been married to for 22 years and had three children with. In the divorce hearing, she named 79 women that he had had affairs with, and he said "Heck, she didn't even include half of them.", and given his good looks and his tall stature (6' 4"), we don't doubt it! In 1982, he joined the daytime soap opera "Capitol", and he appeared on that for 5 years. His final appearance on screen was when he was 70 in 1992, and he passed away in 1999 at the age of 76.

Important Added Info: Note that this still has been personally autographed (signed) by Rory Calhoun! He signed it with his real name, which is what he was first billed under, "Frank McCown", and it is inscribed and dated September 1944, which is really significant, because his first movie, "Something For the Boys", was not released until November, so this great still is from before he was ever on screen (and in fact, he was just 22 years old!).

Note that this item was consigned to us by a man who has been a major movie memorabilia dealer from the 1970s on. He purchased the signed photos that were in the inventory of a long running Hollywood memorabilia store, and he has consigned a large number of them to us, and we are auctioning them here, including this item. The store would get items signed when celebrities visited them, and they also bought collections of signed items, but of course only when they were convinced that they were genuine! Both we and our consignor feel it is extremely likely that the autograph on this item is authentic, but he does not have a certificate of authenticity.

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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