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Autographs by famous people. Hand signed photos, documents, postcards

Sammy Davis Autograph. Hand signed Photo. 8 x 10. CoA

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Sammy Davis Autograph. Hand signed Photo. 8 x 10. CoA

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Sammy Davis Junior b/w Photo, hand signed.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 8 x 10 inches, very fine condition.

Samuel George “Sammy” Davis, Jr. (1925 –1990) was an American entertainer.

Primarily a dancer and singer, Davis was a childhood vaudevillian, and became known for his performances on Broadway and in Las Vegas, as a recording artist, television and film star, and as a member of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack”.

 

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Maria Jeritza Autograph along with Alfred Piccaver on Photo

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Maria Jeritza and Alfred Piccaver Autographs. CoA

Maria Jeritza Autograph

Vintage photo-postcard depicting Maria Jeritza, Alfred Piccaver and Rudolf Hofbauer – and a dog.

Hand signed by Maria Jeritza and Alfred Piccaver.

The Autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

8,8 x 13,4 cm, good condition.

Maria Jeritza (1887 – 1982) was a celebrated Czech soprano singer, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1935) and the Metropolitan Opera (1921–1932 and 1951).

Her sensational rise to fame and spectacular beauty and personality earned her the nickname “The Moravian Thunderbolt”.

On 16 November 1926, she starred in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot in its North American premiere at the Metropolitan, where she was as popular at the Metropolitan as in Vienna, especially as Tosca or Carmen.

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Zubin Mehta Autograph. 8 x 10. CoA

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Zubin Mehta Autograph on 8 x 10 Photo. CoA


Zubin Mehta Autograph
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Zubin Mehta Autograph. Color photo depicting this important conductor with his Hollywood Walk of Fame display in his hands.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1995, Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Arts.In 1999, Mehta was presented the “Lifetime Achievement Peace and Tolerance Award” of the United Nations.

Mehta’s name is mentioned in the song “Billy the Mountain” on the 1972 album Just Another Band from L.A. by Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention.

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Akira Kurosawa Autograph 黒澤明

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黒澤 明 Akira Kurosawa Autograph: Signed Xmas Card. CoA

Akira Kurosawa Autograph

Akira Kurosawa: Christmas greeting card with autograph, hand- signed.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

8,2 x 5,8 inches (21 x 14,7 cm), fine condition.

Akira Kurosawa (1910 –1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor.

Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961). After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work—including his final two epics, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to win awards, including the Palme d’Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

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James King Autograph, 1978, Cavaradossi in Tosca

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Update November 21st: We just learned that James King has passed away yesterday. This is a big loss for the Opera World.

James King autograph

James King Autograph, 1978, Cavaradossi in Tosca: “James King autograph on b/w photo, as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca. Signed 1978 in Wien.

Size: 4.1 x 5.8.

Paper remnants at back otherwise fine condition.

In the early 1960s, at the Vienna State Opera, he sang mainly Wagner and Strauss roles. From 1965 to 1975, he sang at the Bayreuth Festival, as Lohengrin, Siegmund and Parsifal. Not until 1966 was his magnificent voice heard at New York’s Metropolitan Opera House.

His main roles there were Florestan and Lohengrin. He has also sang in the Paris Opera (Calaf, Marico,…), the Royal Opera House (Manrico, the Emperor,…) and the Teatro alla Scala, Milan as Siegmund, Florestan, the Emperor, Bacchus… James King was awarded the title of Kammersänger for the cities of Berlin, Munich, and Vienna and stared four German film productions of opera, television and radio productions. He is presently a voice teacher in the Indiana University School of Music His last recorded appearance was in the 25th anniversary of James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera, in 1996Authentic Autograph, signed in Vienna.”

Christopher Lee Autograph, CoA, 10 x 8

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Christopher Lee Autograph on 10 x 8 Photo. CoA

Christopher Lee autograph

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Christopher Lee Autograph. Impressive, large Photo depicting Christopher Lee with a dagger in his hand.

26 x 20,5 cm, good condition.

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee is an English actor and singer.

Lee initially portrayed villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a string of popular Hammer Horror films.

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Baritone Geza Brand Autograph on Studio Photo from 1923, CoA

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Geza Brand Autograph: Signed Studio Photo. 1923, CoA

Geza Brand autograph

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Geza Brand Autograph on Studio Gertraud (Wien, Rudolfsplatz) Studio Photo.
Signed at front and dedication at reverse.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

8,5 x 13,7 cm. Good condition.

Geza Brand, (1882 – 1938 ), baritone, in Bajazzo-costume.

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Dean Martin Autograph: 8 x 10 Photo, hand signed. CoA

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Dean Martin Autograph: 8 x 10 Photo, hand signed. CoA

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Dean Martin with Microphone, singing. Hand-signed: Always Dean Martin.

8 x 10 inches. Fine condition.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

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Adele Sandrock Autograph. CoA. Additional Writing at Reverse.

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Adele Sandrock, Berlin 1934.

Ross Portrait Photo-Postcard. Hand-signed at front side: „Adele Sandrock 26. 6. 34“.

At the back are some hand written lines by Sandrock: ” Sei gefuehllos!

Ein leichtbewegtes Herz ist ein elend Gut auf der wankenden Erde. Goethe. Herzliche Gruesse Adele Sandrock.

26. 6. 34“.( Be emotionless! A sensitive heart is a woeful burden in this unstable world ).

Adele Sandrock Autograph

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Adele Sandrock (1863 – 1937) was a German actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German film stars.Sandrock was born as Adele Feldern-Foerster in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She achieved success in the town of Meiningen, where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller’s Kabale und Liebe.

In 1889 she moved to Vienna, where she created a number of major roles for modern playwrights including Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Schnitzler, with whom she had a notoriously stormy affair.In 1911 Sandrock made her silent film debut in Marianne, ein Weib aus dem Volk, a short subject.

She acted in more than 140 films, working with a number of directors including Reinhold Schuenzel and Hans Hinrich. Her autobiography, Mein Leben, was published in 1940.

Ingrid Bergman Autograph

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Ingrid Bergman Autograph on b/w photo. CoA

Ingrid Bergmann Autograph

Ingrid Bergman Autograph on b/w photo. CoA

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

88 x 139 mm, good condition.

Ingrid Bergman (1915 –1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and the Tony Award for Best Actress.

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