12th Mar, 2025 12:00
Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Manuscripts
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GREENSTREET SYDNEY: (1879-1954)
GREENSTREET SYDNEY: (1879-1954) English actor, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor in 1941 for his role as Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Greenstreet in a half-length pose wearing a hat, overcoat and scarf, and holding a cigar in one hand, in costume as Dr. Lorenz, a professor of sociology and enemy spy, from the American espionage film Across the Pacific (1942) which also starred Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. Signed by Greenstreet in blue fountain pen ink across a darker area of the image, although with a good inscription to Phyllis Thaxter, ´To Phyllis, Here´s looking at you "Across the Pacific", Dr. Lorenz, love Sydney´. An excellent signed image and with a good association. Two light, minor stains to the upper area of the image and with a couple of minor creases, about VG
Phyllis Thaxter (1919-2012) American actress who portrayed Ellen Lawson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Martha ´Ma´ Kent in Superman (1978).
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GREENSTREET SYDNEY: (1879-1954) English actor, an Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor in 1941 for his role as Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Greenstreet in a half-length pose wearing a hat, overcoat and scarf, and holding a cigar in one hand, in costume as Dr. Lorenz, a professor of sociology and enemy spy, from the American espionage film Across the Pacific (1942) which also starred Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor. Signed by Greenstreet in blue fountain pen ink across a darker area of the image, although with a good inscription to Phyllis Thaxter, ´To Phyllis, Here´s looking at you "Across the Pacific", Dr. Lorenz, love Sydney´. An excellent signed image and with a good association. Two light, minor stains to the upper area of the image and with a couple of minor creases, about VG
Phyllis Thaxter (1919-2012) American actress who portrayed Ellen Lawson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Martha ´Ma´ Kent in Superman (1978).
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Auction: Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Manuscripts, 12th Mar, 2025
