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NORMA TALMADGE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO/SIGNED SILENT FILM

Norma Talmadge Autograph
Norma Talmadge Autograph

EXTREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF SILENT FILM ERA ACTRESS NORMA TALMADGE
Vintage 7 x 9 Melbourne Spurr portrait inscribed in black fountain pen
“Mr. O.K.  Mason with Sincere Best Wishes Norma Talmadge”

Norma Talmadge (May 26, 1893 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.

Her most famous film was Smilin’ Through (1922),but she also scored artistic triumphs teamed with director Frank Borzage in Secrets (1924) and The Lady (1925). Her younger sisters Constance Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge were also movie stars. Talmadge married millionaire and film producer Joseph Schenck and they successfully created their own production company. After reaching fame in the film studios on the East Coast, she moved to Hollywood in 1922.

A specialist in melodrama, Talmadge was one of the most elegant and glamorous film stars of the roaring twenties. By the end of the silent film period her popularity with audiences had waned. After her two talkies proved disappointing at the box office, she retired a very wealthy woman. Of all the silent stars whose reputation collapsed with the coming of sound, Norma Talmadge was the most important. She is little remembered, since her films are seldom revived today, yet in her day she was hugely popular and the epitome of stardom.

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COLLEEN MOORE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO/SIGNED SILENT FILM

Colleen Moore Autograph
Colleen Moore Autograph

EXTREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF SILENT FILM ERA ACTRESS COLLEEN MOORE
Vintage matte finish 7 x 9 Clarence Sinclair Bull portrait inscribed in black fountain pen
“To Mr. and Mrs. O.K. Mason in pleasant memory of our meeting sincerely Colleen Moore”

BOTTOM LEFT CORNER HAS RAISED TEXT OF “CLARENCE SINCLAIR BULL”
THIS IS A VERY UNIQUE PIECE, VERY COOL TO ADD TO ANY COLLECTION AND A MUST FOR ANY SILENT ERA FAN!

Colleen Moore (August 19, 1900 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era. TALKIES With the advent of talking pictures in 1929, Moore took a hiatus from acting. During this interim, Moore was briefly married to a prominent New York-based stockbroker , Albert Parker Scott, one of her four husbands. She and Scott lived at that time in a lavish home in Bel Air, where they hosted parties for and were supporters of the U.S. Olympic team, especially the yachting team, during the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles. In 1933, Moore, by then divorced, returned to work in Hollywood. She appeared in three films, none of which were successful, and Moore retired. She later married the widower Homer Hargrave and raised his children (she never had children of her own) from a previous marriage, with whom she maintained a life-long close relationship. Throughout her life she also maintained close friendships with other colleagues from the silent film era, such as King Vidor and Mary Pickford.

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HOPE HAMPTON AUTOGRAPHED VINTAGE PHOTO, SILENT FILM ACTRESS

Hope Hampton Autograph
Hope Hampton Autograph

EXTREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF SILENT FILM ERA ACTRESS HOPE HAMPTON. PHOTO MEASURES 7-1/2 BY 9-1/2 INCHES
SIGNED IN WHITE INK
VERY SINCERELY,
HOPE HAMPTON

Hope Hampton (Mae Elizabeth Hampton) (19 February 1897 – 23 January 1982) was an American silent motion picture actress, who was noted for her seemingly effortless incarnation of siren and flapper types in silent-picture roles during the 1920s.

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DOROTHY DALTON AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO, SILENT FILM ACTRESS

Dorothy Dalton Autograph
Dorothy Dalton Autograph

EXTREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF SILENT FILM ERA ACTRESS DOROTHY DALTON.  MEASURES 6.5 BY 9 INCH, OVERALL GOOD CONDITION, SLIGHTLY UNEVEN ALONG EDGES FROM BEING CUT DOWN FROM ORIGINAL SIZE.

SIGNED CORDIALLY YOURS,
DOROTHY DALTON, 1918.

Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972) was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was in Hollywood.

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JOBYNA RALSTON AUTOGRAPH “JOBIE” SILENT FILM ACTRESS

Jobyna Ralston

EXTREMELY RARE AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF SILENT FILM ERA ACTRESS JOBYNA RALSTON “JOBIE”
SIGNED IN GREY INK,
“TO MY PAL ROY
LOVE + KISSES
THIS GABEE
JOBIE”

MATTE FINISH WITH A RAISED TEXTURE THAT CAN BE SEEN IN SOME OF THE PICTURES PROVIDED, OVERALL EXCELLENT CONDITION AND MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 10-1/2 INCHES BY 13-1/4 INCHES ON VERY STURDY AND HEAVY PAPER.

Jobyna Ralston (November 21, 1900 – January 22, 1967) was an American actress of the silent film era.

Early life and career
Born Jobyna Lancaster Ralston in South Pittsburg, Tennessee in 1900 to parents who named her after famed entertainer of the time, Jobyna Howland. Jobyna’s mother, a portrait photographer, carefully groomed her daughter for a show business career.

At the age of nine she gave her first stage performance in Cinderella during the grand opening of the Wilson theatre/Opera House in 1909. Around 1915, Jobyna attended acting school in New York. She later danced chorus and sang in Broadway productions, her first being Two Little Girls In Blue. This production marked her Broadway debut, when she was 21. Comedian Max Linder saw her on stage and persuaded her to go to Hollywood, where Jobyna appeared in a number of his films. She also co-starred in Humor Risk (1921), the fabled lost comedy short film that was to be the film debut of the Marx Brothers. Soon director Hal Roach began to star the actress in one-reel comedies. She abandoned the stage for the screen in 1922 when her mother’s health began to decline, and she needed to make more money to help pay the medical bills.

Starring with Harold Lloyd
In 1923 she was named by the film industry as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. This award was given every year to the top up and coming female stars. This same year she starred with silent comedian Harold Lloyd in Why Worry?, and for the next five years appeared in six of Lloyd’s feature films as his leading lady. Ralston brought both genuine emotional depth and comedic talent to these films. It is for these performances and her onscreen chemistry with Lloyd that she is best remembered today. She would start the trend for romantic comedies with Girl Shy. The chemistry of that film is unmatched.

Silent film career
As a freelance actress, Jobyna co-starred with Richard Arlen, in the first Oscar-winning film, Wings (1927). She had a feature role in a film which also featured Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, and Buddy Rogers. She would star in eleven more motion pictures, among them Special Delivery (1927) co-starring Eddie Cantor. Her film career ended after two early talkies when Jobyna became a mother. Her last talkie, Rough Waters (1930), found her acting with Rin Tin Tin.

Personal life
Jobyna was married twice. The first time was to her childhood beau John Campbell, but the marriage did not last. She married actor Richard Arlen in 1927, who she had met on the set of Wings. They had one child, actor Richard Arlen Jr.. Ralston and Arlen divorced in 1945. She spent the last five years of her life suffering from rheumatism and had a series of strokes. She died in 1967 from pneumonia at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. She was 67 years old.

Filmography
A Sailor-Made Man (Uncredited, 1921)
The Bride-to-Be (1922)
Friday, the Thirteenth (1922)
The Call of Home (1922)
Take Next Car (1922)
The Truth Juggler (1922)
Touch All the Bases (1922)
The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922)
Wet Weather (1922)
The Landlubber (1922)
Soak the Shiek (1922)
Bone Dry (1922)
Face the Camera (1922)
The Uppercut (1922)
Shiver and Shake (1922)
The Golf Bug (1922)
Shine ’em Up (1922)
Washed Ashore (1922)
Harvest Hands (1922)
The Flivver (1922)
Blaze Away (1922)
I’ll Take Vanilla (1922)
Fair Week (1922)
The White Blacksmith (1922)
Watch Your Wife (1923)
Mr. Hyppo (1923)
Don’t Say Die (1923)
Jailed and Bailed (1923)
A Loose Tightwad (1923)
Tight Shoes (1923)
Do Your Stuff (1923)
Shoot Straight (1923)
For Safe Keeping (1923)
For Guests Only (1923)
For Art’s Sake (1923)
Why Worry? (1923)
Winner Take All (1923)
Girl Shy (1924)
Hot Water (1924)
Whispering Lions (1925)
The Freshman (1925)
Are Parents Pickles? (1925)
Whistling Lions (1925)
Between Meals (1926)
Humor Risk (1926)
Don’t Butt In (1926)
For Heaven’s Sake (1926)
Sweet Daddies (1926)
Gigolo (1926)
The Kid Brother (1927)
Special Delivery (1927)
Lightning (1927)
Wings (1927)
A Racing Romeo (1927)
Pretty Clothes (1927)
Little Mickey Grogan (1927)
The Night Flyer (1928)
The Count of Ten (1928)
Black Butterflies (1928)
The Big Hop (1928)
The Toilers (1928)
The Power of the Press (1928)
Some Mother’s Boy (1929)
The College Coquette (1929)
Rough Waters (1930)