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

Paul Newman passed away: Autograph from 1962

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83-year-old Paul Newman passed away Friday following a bout with cancer. We have an old film-program, signed by Paul Newman:

Paul Newman, hand-signed autograph on a German movie program for the film: “Sweet Bird of Youth”, 1962

Size: 6,5 x 9,2 inches. The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Paul Newman autograph

Paul Leonard Newman (born 1925) is an American actor and film director. He has won numerous awards including Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an Emmy award.

Newman was one of the few actors who successfully made the transition from 1950s cinema to that of the 1960s and 1970s. His rebellious persona translated well to a subsequent generation. Newman starred in Exodus (1960), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1966), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977) and The Verdict (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), or with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films The Long, Hot Summer (1958), ….. Harry & Son (1984) and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990).

In addition to starring in and directing Harry & Son, Newman also directed four feature films.

25 years after The Hustler, Newman reprised his role of Fast Eddie Felson in the Martin Scorsese directed The Color of Money for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He passed away Sept. 26th 2008.

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Jochen Rindt Autograph on early Photo. CoA

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Jochen Rindt Autograph. Hand- signed early Photo. CoA

Jochen Rindt: b/w real photo, hand-signed.

4 x 5,9 inches. Mounted on cardboard, fine condition.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Jochen Rindt (1942-1970) World champion 1970, deceased 1970 during training for the Italian Grand Prix.
Jochen Rindt was born in Mainz, Germany, but after his parents were killed in a bombing raid in the Second World War, he moved to live with his grandparents in Graz, Austria, where he grew up and started motor racing.
Despite being very successful in Formula 2 (by winning for instance the 1964 London Trophy), Rindt kept on choosing the wrong F1 cars.

 

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Robert Mitchum Autograph on Photo. CoA

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Robert Mitchum Autograph on Photo. CoA

Robert Mitchum: Authentic Autograph on TV-Station PRO 7 photo.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

12,6 x 17,7 cm, very good condition.

Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (1917 –1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. He is #23 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time.

Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Edward G. Robinson Autograph on Photo. CoA

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Edward G. Robinson Autograph on Photo. CoA

Edward G. Robinson Autograph

 

Edward G. Robinson portrait photo with dedication and signature, hand signed.
The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Size: 12,6 x 17,7 cm (5 x 7 inches). Good condition.

Edward G. Robinson (Yiddish: עמנואל גאָלדנבערג Emanuel Goldenberg; 1893 –1973) was a Romanian-born American actor.

A popular star during Hollywood’s Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo.

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt Autograph CoA

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Nikolaus Harnoncourt Autograph

 

Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Portrait trading-card by Sony, hand signed by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
10,5 x 14,8 cm, very good condition.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929 – 2016) was an Austrian conductor, particularly known for his historically informed performances of music from the Classical era and earlier.
Starting out as a classical cellist, he founded his own period instrument ensemble, Concentus Musicus Wien, in the 1950s, and became a pioneer of the Early Music movement.
Around 1970, Harnoncourt started to conduct opera and concert performances, soon leading renowned international symphony orchestras, and appearing at leading concert halls, operatic venues and festivals.
His repertoire then widened to include composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2001 and 2003, he conducted the Vienna New Year’s Concert. Harnoncourt was also the author of several books, mostly on subjects of performance history and musical aesthetics.

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Vaclav Havel Autograph. Signed Photo. CoA

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President Václav Havel: Portrait photo, hand-signed.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 4 x 6 inches, very fine condition.

Vaclav Havel Autograph
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Vaclav Havel, born 1936 in Prague was always very close to the intellectual and artist community in Czechoslovakia.

As an outcome of the Second World War Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet Russian and Communist domination in 1948 with serious effects on Havel’s family. Vaclav Havel worked as a laboratory technician and took night classes to finish high school. As he grew into manhood he showed signs of dissent against the Czech Communist authorities’ ongoing suppression of artistic and literary freedoms.

Havel was somewhat involved in the Prague Spring of 1968, an episode where Czech intellectuals enthusiastically supported moves, then being sponsored by Alexander Dubcek, for a liberalizing reform of the Czech Communist system.

A Soviet invasion of August 1968 suppressed the Prague Spring. Havel protested with the result that the authorities banned his works. The authorities offered him several opportunities to leave the country but he declined as he had decided to remain in Czechoslovakia and work for change holding the view that ‘the solution of this human situation does not lie in leaving it.’

In 1977 he helped orchestrate and produce Charter 77, a document supported by hundreds of Czech intellectuals, that demanding that Czech citizens be afforded basic human rights such as had seemed to be promised in the Helsinki Agreements…….

Ginger Rogers Photo with her Autograph.

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Ginger Rogers: Authentic Autograph from 1991 on b/w photograph.The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. 4 x 5,8 inches, fine condition.

Ginger Rogers (1911 – 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress, dancer and singer.

In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire’s romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. She’s also among the list, ranking #14, on AFI’s
100 Years… 100 Stars.=

Clark Gable Autograph on Photo as Rhett Butler. CoA

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Clark Gable Autograph. Hand signed Photo. CoA

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Clark Gable Autograph on portrait photo as Rhett Butler.

Photo by Film-Foto-Verlag (Metro Goldwyn Mayer license).

8,6 x 14 cm. 2 mm trimmed at left margins, otherwise very fine condition.

The photo has been signed with fountain pen.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

William Clark Gable (1901 – 1960), known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh.

His performance earned him his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor; he won for It Happened One Night (1934) and was also nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).

Later movies included Run Silent, Run Deep, a submarine war film, and his final film, The Misfits (1961), which paired Gable with Marilyn Monroe, also in her last screen appearance. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time. He was nicknamed ‘The King of Hollywood.’

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Georg Baselitz Autograph on Postcard of Painting Eagle CoA

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Georg Baselitz Autograph on Artist Postcard CoA

Georg Baselitz Autograph
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Georg Baselitz: Postcard of his painting Adler (Eagle) 1972. Boldly signed by Baselitz.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.
10,5 x 14,8 cm. Very good condition.

Georg Baselitz (born 1938) is a German painter. Baselitz’s style is interpreted by the Northern American critics as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern.

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Conrad Veidt Autograph (Casablanca Actor) on old Ross Photo

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Conrad Veidt Autograph on old Ross Photo. CoA

 

Conrad Veidt autograph on Ross photo postcard.

The photo shows Veidt in a smoking with cigarette. It was signed in the 1930s.

The Autograph comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

3,6 x 5,6 inches. Fine condition.

Born Hans Walter Conrad Weidt in Potsdam, Germany. In the 27 years between 1916 and his death, he managed to act in well over 100 movies, some of them classics. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928) was the inspiration for Batman’s greatest enemy, The Joker. Veidt appeared in Das Land ohne Frauen (1929), Germany’s first talking picture.

Veidt, who was married to a Jewish woman and considered himself a Jew, was known to have anti-Nazi beliefs, and he fled Germany in 1933 with his life in danger. Settling in Britain he continued making films, notably three with director Michael Powell: The Spy in Black (1939), Contraband (1940) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He later moved to Hollywood, and starred as the Nazi Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca (1942).

He died of a heart attack a year later, while playing golf in Los Angeles.

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