GARLAND JUDY: (1922-1969) American actress and singer, Academy Award winner. An excellent vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Garland in a head and shoulders pose against an attractive art deco background. Signed in blue ink to a clear area of the image, 'To Charlie - love, Judy'. A couple of very minor, light wrinkles to the right edge and a few extremely minor traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG

Provenance: The present photograph was inscribed to Charles Henry, stage director of the London Palladium. In April 1951 Judy Garland performed for four weeks at the London Palladium, the shows centring on the songs of Al Jolson. Garland received rave reviews and an ovation described by the Palladium manager as the loudest he had ever heard. Indeed, the singer herself declared 'I suddenly knew that this was the beginning of a new life…..Hollywood thought I was through; then came the wonderful opportunity to appear at the London Palladium, where I can truthfully say Judy Garland was reborn'.