Lot 656
Vintage Autograph Album With 49 Autographs. Album with forty-nine celebrity autographs, each on a 3x5" piece of paper, neatly arranged in a 13½x13½" album. Seven have salutations to Bruce (Newton), who was an early Chicago television personality and puppeteer. Fine or very good condition; three have small tape remnants; a 50th signature by Ingrid Bergman is stamped. Celebrities who signed include: Charles Laughton, William Bendix (2), Orson Welles (2), Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Danny Kaye, Barbara Stanwyck (2), Clark Gable, Henry Fonda, Tallulah Bankhead (2), Red Skelton, Adolphe Menjou (2), Bob Burns, Cecil B. DeMille, Nelson Eddy, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, Gary Cooper, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Ladd, Bela Lugosi (2), Gene Tierney, Joe E. Brrown (2), Deanna (Durbin), Madeline Carroll, Roddy McDowell (2), Eleanor Powell, Robert Taylor, Alice Faye, Gene Autry, Monty Woolley, Walter Brennan/"Granpa McCoy", Carmen Miranda, Jackie Cooper, Herbert Marshall, Olivia de Havilland, and one other, difficult to decipher.
Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500.
From the personal collection of Chicago television pioneer and puppeteer, Bruce Newton.
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