eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3d156 HELEN BRODERICK signed 4x5 cut album page in 8x12 display 1930s ready to frame & display! Date Sold 1/13/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Autographed 4 1/4" x 5" [11 x 13 cm] Cut Album Page in Matted Display (entire display measures 7 1/2" x 12 1/4") (Learn More) Helen Broderick was an stage and screen actress and comedian from the 1920s to the 1940s. She began on Broadway as a chorus girl in the Follies of 1907, the first of Florenz Ziegfeld's annual revues. Her talent for comedy was discovered when, as an understudy in a romance, she filled in for the lead actress and soon had the audience in stitches (the play was then changed to a farce with her as the lead). By the late 1920s, she was consistently playing leads and featured roles, most often in comedies. She was the wife of actor Lester Crawford, and mother of Academy Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford. Some of her roles include: Fifty Million Frenchmen, High Speed, Top Hat, Murder on a Bridle Path, Stage Door Canteen, and Because of Him/ She passed away in 1959 at the age of 68. Important Added Info: This cut album page has been personally autographed (signed) by Helen Broderick! It is matted together with a cut book page, and the entire display is ready to frame and hang on the wall! Note that this autographed item is part of a remarkable collection. In each of our last several all-signed auctions, we auctioned hundreds of items from this collection and now we are auctioning 209 signed photos and miscellaneous other signed items (plus 55 signed index cards that have a different note on those)! In the 1970s, our consignor was a teacher who taught a film class, and he also part-time ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits from the movies the theater showed). Starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s, he wrote to famous celebrities, and enclosed an 8x10 still or repro (or sometimes another item) 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 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 item (and the vast majority of the other photos and other items we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the late 1970s or 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. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades
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