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Deep in My Heart, the 1954 Stanley Donen romantic biography musical ("MGM's finest musical in color!"; "The greatest array of musical talent in all picturedom... In the dramatic, eventful love story of a man who wrote the songs the nation took to its heart!"; "21 Hit Songs! 20 Hollywood Stars!"; "From the Book by Elliot Arnold"; "Based on the Life and the Melodies of Sigmund Romberg"; the movie had a framework plot, but it was really just an excuse to present 11 different song and dance numbers from 11 Broadway shows!) starring Jose Ferrer (as Sigmund Romberg), Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, (and a cast of MGM "guest stars" including) Walter Pidgeon, Paul Henreid, Rosemary Clooney, Gene Kelly, Fred Kelly (billed as "Gene & Fred Kelly"), Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse, Howard Keel, Tony Martin, Doe Avedon, Tamara Toumanova, Paul Stewart, Isobel Elsom, William Olvis, and James Mitchell. Note that star Jose Ferrer was married to Rosemary Clooney (who also appeared in the movie) when this movie was made.
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Important Added Info: Note that this TV still (which from is an undated, but likely 1960s, re-release of "Deep in My Heart") has been personally autographed (signed) by BOTH Jose Ferrer AND Rosemary Clooney, who were real life husband and wife at the time this movie was made!

Note that this autographed 8x10 is part of a remarkable new collection we have been consigned, and we are auctioning nearly 500 items from this collection in this set of auctions (we will have more from this collection in our next few sets of autograph auctions).
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a high school teacher who taught a film class, and one day a week (and all through the summer) he ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits and one-sheets from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s, but increasingly greatly in the early 1980s, he hit on the idea of writing to famous celebrities, and enclosing an 8x10 from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star.
     He often was able to locate an 8x10 still from his collection that was from a really good movie from that star, or one that had a really good image of that star. In a relatively small number of cases, he did not have a still in his collection to send, so he bought a reproduction from a photo shop, and sent that instead, which is why some of the items that have this notation on them are reproductions.
     He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them.
     In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the mid-1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor!
     He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves.

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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