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Entertainment

Sharon Tate Signed Letter

Sharon Tate Signed Letter
Sharon Tate Signed Letter

Light handling wear with a few marginal creases, otherwise fine, clean condition. A scarce and notable association of two figures from this most horrifying of Hollywood crimes! $4,250 Available for sale now at trishautographs.com

Born January 24, 1943, in Dallas, Texas. Starting out in Hollywood in the early 1960s, Sharon Tate appeared in a recurring role on the television show, Beverly Hillbillies, and in bit parts in movies, including The Americanization of Emily (1964) and The Sandpiper (1965). In 1965, she landed her first real movie role in Eye of the Devil, starring David Niven and Deborah Kerr. While filming the movie in London, she met the movie director Roman Polanski after auditioning successfully for his horror spoof, The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967).  The couple began a romantic relationship, and were married in January 1968.

Sharon Tate’s breakthrough performance came in the hit 1967 film, Valley of the Dolls, based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann and co-starring Patty Duke and Susan Hayward. Also in 1968, she appeared in Don’t Make Waves with Tony Curtis, and had a starring role in the comedy The Wrecking Crew, with Dean Martin. With the success of Valley of the Dolls and Polanski’s creepy thriller, Rosemary’s Baby (1968), they became one of the most visible couples in Hollywood.

After completing filming on 12+1 (released in 1970) in Italy in 1969, Tate returned to Los Angeles, where she and her husband were renting a house on Cielo Drive in Bel Air. Polanski remained at the couple’s home in England, working on his latest film. On August 9, 1969, the 26-year-old Tate (then eight months pregnant) was brutally murdered in her home, along with three houseguests and a teenage delivery boy, by a group of people who were later revealed as part of the “Manson family,” a murderous cult driven by the apocalyptic fantasies of its deranged leader, Charles Manson. Manson and four of his followers were convicted of those murders (along with two others) and sentenced to death in 1971; after California’s temporary abolition of the death penalty in 1972, they are now serving life sentences and have repeatedy been denied parole. Biography courtesy of Biography.com

Entertainment

Wizard of Oz Scarecrow autographed 8 x 10

Signed Wizard of Oz Scarecrow
Signed Wizard of Oz Scarecrow

Vintage glossy 7.5 x 9.25 photo of Bolger as the Scarecrow, signed and inscribed in fountain pen “To Charles K. Stumpf, All the best, Ray Bolger.” Three binder dings to right edge, paperclip impression along top edge, and some scattered surface marks and creases, otherwise fine condition.

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Ray Bolger was born and grew up in Dorchester, Massachusetts, a middle-class neighborhood. His father was a house-painter, his mother a homemaker. He was inspired by the vaudeville shows he attended when he was young to become an entertainer himself. He began his career as a dancer. His limber body and ability to ad lib movement won him many starring roles on Broadway in the 1930s.

His film career began when he signed a $3,000 a week contract with MGM in 1936. His best-known film prior to The Wizard of Oz was The Great Ziegfeld (1936). Keep reading about Bolger by


Presidential

Calvin Coolidge Signature

Calvin Coolidge Signature
Calvin Coolidge Signature

Signed White House card, signed in black ink, “Calvin Coolidge.” In fine condition, with a hint of light edge toning.
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Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. He was graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton, Massachusetts. Slowly, methodically, he went up the political ladder from councilman in Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. En Buy Zithromax route he became thoroughly conservative.

As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federal economic power to check the growing boom or to ameliorate the depressed condition of agriculture and certain industries. His first message to Congress in December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.  More on the biography of Calvin Coolidge can be found at this following link: Click Here!

Sports

Roger Clemens Signed Sports Illustrated

NEW YORK — Roger Clemens gained entrance into one of the most exclusive clubs in sports Friday, becoming the 21st pitcher in Major League history to win 300 games, as the Yankees defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-2, in front of a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium.

Roger Clemens Signed Sports Illustrated
Roger Clemens Signed Sports Illustrated

ROGER CLEMENS. Signed Sports Illustrated magazine, issue June 2, 2003. Signed in blue ink, crease on the lower Buy Zithromax Online right corner and light wear otherwise beautiful NM.

From MLB Website on June 13th, 2003.
“I’m real fortunate that I had the opportunity to do it here in this stadium and in this uniform,” said Clemens. “I just couldn’t have drawn it up any better.”

Clemens became the first pitcher since Nolan Ryan in 1990 to reach 300 wins, tying Hall-of-Famers Early Wynn and Lefty Grove for 19th place on the all-time victory list. Clemens is the second pitcher to win No. 300 at Yankee Stadium, but the first Yankee to win it in front of the home fans.

History Makers

Thomas Edison Signed Check

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Thomas Edison Signed Check

Business check from the Edison Botonic Research Corporation, 8.5 x 3, filled out in another hand and signed “Thoas. A. Edison,” payable to W. A. Benney[?] for $438.72, April 6, 1928. Punch cancellations and a few faint creases touching signature, otherwise fine, clean condition. This item is available for sale right now at www.trishautographs.com

A brief history of the Edison Botonic Research Corporation

In 1927, Edison, Henry Ford, and Henry Firestone formed the Edison Botanic Research Corporation of Fort Myers. Plants were collected in Florida and throughout the southern United States by field collectors. Plants were grown under controlled conditions in Florida and at Edison’s laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey. The Edison employee most associated with this research was B. Jonas. Eventually, over 17,000 plants were tested for the quality and quantity of rubber they produced. It was determined that the goldenrod was the most likely candidate and after two years of cross-breeding a goldenrod was developed that yielded almost twelve percent rubber.  Source