eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8p878 FRANCIS LEDERER signed 8x10 REPRO still 1980s great waist-high portrait of the Czech actor! Date Sold 8/27/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Autographed 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] REPRODUCTION Still (Learn More) Francis Lederer was an Austro-Hungarian (in what is now the Czech Republic) actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. Born in 1899, he served in World War I, and then became a stage actor in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Germany. His first movie was in 1928, and in 1929 he got a big break with an important role in G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks. His career really took off when sound movies began (the movies preferred stage actors when they made the transition from silent to sound, and Lederer had a decade of stage experience). In 1931 he appeared in London in the stage play Volpone, and the show traveled to Broadway and then to Hollywood over the next two years, and Lederer decided to stay in Los Angeles, due to the worsening situation in his homeland. He played leading roles in 1934 and 1935, and he was a favorite of Irving Thalberg, who announced that he would make Lederer "the biggest star in Hollywood" but the death of Thalberg in 1935 ended that, and Lederer was soon playing secondary roles, and he spent the rest of the 1930s and the 1940s alternating between movies and the stage, and then in the 1950s he added in much television work. He became an acting teacher, but because he had wisely invested in real estate in the Los Angeles area, he had became extremely wealthy, but he never quit teaching acting and he was still teaching the week before he passed away in 2000, at the age of 100! Some of his movies include: Die Buchse Der Pandora, Midnight, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Diary of a Chambermaid, The Return of Dracula, and The Ambassador's Daughter Important Added Info: Note that this REPRODUCTION still has been personally autographed (signed) by Francis Lederer! 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 many more signed photos and miscellaneous other signed items! 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 (and sometimes also a blank index card or other 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 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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