Five vintage double-weight studio portrait photographs of Hollywood leading men, each signed and with scalloped edges:
- Robert Alda: seated in a checked shirt, signed and inscribed in blue ink, "A mon amie / Robert Alda / Merci!"
- Errol Flynn: in a dark suit and checked tie, signed and inscribed in blue ink at right, "Hello Helene / Errol Flynn." The signature may be secretarial.
- Henry Fonda: as a young leading man, signed and inscribed in black ink at left, "Best wishes / Henry Fonda."
- Richard Greene: in a Glen plaid jacket and ascot, 20th Century Fox emblem at lower left, signed and inscribed in green ink, "Best wishes / Richard Greene."
- Ray Milland: smiling in a tweed jacket, signed in blue-black ink at lower right, with a word in quotation marks and parentheses beneath: "Ray Milland / ("[illegible]")."
Fine. 5 x 7 inches; 12.5 x 17.5 cm each. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Alda starred as George Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue (1945) and created the role of Sky Masterson in the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls. Flynn, the Australian-American actor, was one of Hollywood's greatest heartthrobs. Greene, a British matinee idol of the late 1930s, later became a household name as television's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Milland was Welsh and moved to the U.S. in 1930; he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1945 film The Lost Weekend.
Five vintage double-weight studio portrait photographs of Hollywood leading men, each signed and with scalloped edges:
- Robert Alda: seated in a checked shirt, signed and inscribed in blue ink, "A mon amie / Robert Alda / Merci!"
- Errol Flynn: in a dark suit and checked tie, signed and inscribed in blue ink at right, "Hello Helene / Errol Flynn." The signature may be secretarial.
- Henry Fonda: as a young leading man, signed and inscribed in black ink at left, "Best wishes / Henry Fonda."
- Richard Greene: in a Glen plaid jacket and ascot, 20th Century Fox emblem at lower left, signed and inscribed in green ink, "Best wishes / Richard Greene."
- Ray Milland: smiling in a tweed jacket, signed in blue-black ink at lower right, with a word in quotation marks and parentheses beneath: "Ray Milland / ("[illegible]")."
Fine. 5 x 7 inches; 12.5 x 17.5 cm each. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Alda starred as George Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue (1945) and created the role of Sky Masterson in the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls. Flynn, the Australian-American actor, was one of Hollywood's greatest heartthrobs. Greene, a British matinee idol of the late 1930s, later became a household name as television's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Milland was Welsh and moved to the U.S. in 1930; he won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1945 film The Lost Weekend.