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Autograph Album

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD
Autograph Album

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Auction Date:2011 May 19 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Vintage leather bound hardcover autograph album, 7.5 x 10.25, dating from 1927 to approximately 1947, signed inside by over 450 people, with all pages multi-signed, and back-to-back. Front of book is embossed with the name of Howard Greer, a Hollywood costume designer, as well as the Chief Costume Designer at Paramount from 1924–1927. Signers include: Greta Garbo, Thelma Todd, Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Katharine Hepburn, Basil Rathbone, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton, Rita Hayworth, Salvador Dali, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Temple, Greer Garson, George Bernard Shaw, Billie Burke Ziegfield, Marlene Dietrich, Al Jolson, Frank Capra, Walter Plunkett, Edith Head, Louise Brooks, W[illiam] Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies, Carl Van Vechten, James Montgomery Flagg, Carl Laemmle, Jr., Vilma Banky, Joseph Schildkraut, Paul Bern, Barbara Stanwyck Fay, Helen Kane, Helen Hayes, Norma Shearer, Kay Francis, Cecil Beaton, Fay Wray, Jeanette MacDonald, Anna May Wong, Noel Coward, Gwili Andre, Irene Dunne, Helen Twelvetrees, Elizabeth Arden, Clata Bow, Adrian (Wizard of Oz costumer), Zita Johann, Gracie Allen, Theda Bara, Margaret Sullivan, Doris Duke, Myrna Loy, Claudette Colbert, Tallulah Bankhead, Ginger Rogers, Leni Riefenstahl, Jennifer Jones, Susan Hayward, and Pola Negri. Uniform toning to inside pages, red pencil underlines to beginning of some of the signatures, and light rubbing and wear, including a bit of scattered light surface loss to covers and spine, otherwise fine condition. A more comprehensive list is available for download at rrauction.com.

This astonishing album starts in 1927, the same year that Greer, one of Hollywood’s premier costume designers, left Paramount Pictures and the constraints of black-and-white film to work in custom clothing. After opening a couture operation in Hollywood in December 1927, Greer happily provided his celebrity designs for women as disparate as Shirley Temple and Theda Bara. He famously provided a full wardrobe for Greta Garbo and wedding dresses for both Temple and Gloria Vanderbilt. His style had long lived appeal as he created both personal and film wardrobes for stars including Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson, Ginger Rogers, and Katherine Hepburn. In admiration and appreciation of his creations, nearly every starlet and star he encountered was more than happy to agree to autograph request...the result being the amazing assemblage now offered.
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