{"product_id":"17193-jenkins-florence-foster-original-photograph-inscribed-to-her-accompanist","title":"Jenkins, Florence Foster. (1868-1944) Original Photograph Inscribed to her Accompanist","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eAn extremely rare signed portrait photograph of the notoriously awful soprano, inscribed to her accompanist Edwin McArthur. Shown standing \u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ein her apartment, holding a white feather boa, Jenkins has penned: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eTo the very best accompanist, Edwin McArthur, and his charming wife Blanche. With my love from ‘Lady Florence’ July 19\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eth '32.\" Mounted on heavy card. Some small corner chips and a few scattered spots, but overall in very good condition with crisp image and inscription. 7.5 x 9.5 inches (19.5 x 24.2 cm).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eFlorence Foster Jenkins, an American girl born in 1868 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to a well-to-do family, has become a legend as “the world’s worst opera singer.”  She made some vanity 78 rpm records for the Mel-o-tone label during World War Two, and in October 1944 hired Carnegie Hall for a recital.  The bad reviews that resulted from that recital were said to break her heart and she died a few weeks later at age 76, but the recordings have kept her name and her art alive.  In recent years there have been two full-length biographies (by \u003c\/span\u003eDarryl Bullock and Jasper Rees), several plays about her and three full-length movies: a French comedy-drama titled “Marguerite,” a German docu-drama starring soprano Joyce di Donato, and the celebrated film starring Meryl Streep. However, autograph material and other historical memorabilia of Jenkins is of the utmost rarity.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093642104991,"sku":"17193","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Jenkins_Florence_SP_14141_001_09f902e0-349c-4b45-b7ab-5e75736ac348.jpg?v=1722189386","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/17193-jenkins-florence-foster-original-photograph-inscribed-to-her-accompanist","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}