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Clifton Webb Autographs (Lot # 20). Sam Wood was Clifton Webb Entertains.

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Clifton Webb Autographs (Lot # 20). Sam Wood was Clifton Webb Entertains.
<B>Clifton Webb Entertains.</B></I> Sam Wood was the director of several outstanding Hollywood films, including <I>A Night at the Opera</B></I> (1935), <I>Goodbye Mr. Chips</B></I> (1939) and <I>Kings Row</B></I> (1942) - although perhaps his most famous work was subbing for an emotionally and physically exhausted Victor Fleming on <I>Gone With the Wind</B></I> (1939). Wood's signature is on the undated lead-off page of this three-page lot. This page also features Mary Pickford, George Cukor, William ("Bill") Powell, Phillips Holmes, Libby Holman and more. Page two, dated November 19, 1937 and headed "Clifton's Birthday," includes Moss Hart, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. A third, undated page offers the signatures of Lewis Milestone (Academy Award winning director for 1930's <I>All Quiet on the Western Front</B></I>), actor John Emery, the Countess di Frasso and Sylvia Fine Kaye, wife of Danny Kaye, who wrote much of his specialty material. Unusual and diversified assortment. <I>With COA from PSA/DNA.</B></I>