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1950's Hollywood, Entertainment

THE BROWN DERBY POSTCARD SIGNED BY LOU COSTELLO, BUD ABBOT, SHEMP HOWARD, AND MORE

The Derby Autographed postcard
The Derby Autographed postcard

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EACH SIGNATURE WAS OBTAINED IN PERSON SOMETIME IN THE 1940’s.

Bob Hope, Gloria Blondell, (Joan’s sister and the star of a popular mystery radio show), Hanley Stafford, (“Dithers” on the Blondie radio show) Shemp Howard, Jackie Coogan, J. Carroll Naish, Bobby Barber, (noted character actors), Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Fibber McGee and Molly and A.C. Lyles,(producer of many western films).

William (Bud) Abbott and Lou Costello (born Louis Francis Cristillo) performed together as Abbott and Costello, an American comedy duo whose work in radio, film and television made them the most popular comedy team during the 1940s and 50s. Thanks to the endurance of their most popular and influential routine, “Who’s on First?”—whose rapid-fire word play and comprehension confusion set the preponderant framework for most of their best-known routines—the team is, as a result, featured in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. (Contrary to popular belief, however, the duo was not inducted into the Hall.)

1950's Hollywood, Entertainment

KIRK DOUGLAS AUTOGRAPHED OVERSIZED PHOTO PSA/DNA COA

Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Buy Minocycline Online without prescription target=”_top”>Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus’ gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the event, the enslaved trainees are “rewarded” with female companionship. Spartacus’ companion for the evening is Varinia (Jean Simmons), a slave from Brittania. When Spartacus later learns that Varinia has been sold to Crassus, he leads 78 fellow gladiators in revolt. Word of the rebellion spreads like wildfire, and soon Spartacus’ army numbers in the hundreds. Escaping to join his cause is Varinia, who has fallen in love with Spartacus, and another of Crassus’ house slaves, the sensitive Antoninus (Tony Curtis). The revolt becomes the principal cog in the wheel of a political struggle between Crassus and a more temperate senator named Gracchus (Charles Laughton). Anthony Mann was the original director of Spartacus, eventually replaced by Stanley Kubrick, who’d previously guided Douglas through Paths of Glory. The film received 4 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Ustinov. A crucial scene between Olivier and Curtis, removed from the 1967 reissue because of its subtle homosexual implications, was restored in 1991, with a newly recorded soundtrack featuring Curtis as his younger self and Anthony Hopkins standing in for the deceased Olivier. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Vintage Hollywood

Susan Hayward Signed Vintage Photograph

 

Susan Hayward Signed Vintage Photograph
Susan Hayward Signed Vintage Photograph

Born Edythe Marrener on June 30, 1918, to a poverty stricken family in Brooklyn, New York, Hayward’s childhood was difficult.She was hit by a car at the age of seven and stranded at home ina body cast for months. The experience left Hayward with a limp and painful memories of a debility she would never forget.

Hayward’s life took an unexpected turn when she was cast as the lead in a school play at age twelve. The attention she received quickly turned her into a compulsive ham. By 1935, a sexy swagger had replaced Hayward’s childhood limp, and the gorgeous seventeen-year-old possessed an hourglass figure, a brassy Brooklyn accent and a burning desire for fortune and fame. She began working as a model to help support her family, and when she was featured in the Saturday Evening Post in 1937, all of America was introduced to the red-headed siren from Brooklyn. The same year,David O. Selznick offered Hayward an audition for the part of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. Though her lack of experience took her out of serious consideration, Hayward decided to trade in her return ticket and stay in Hollywood. After signing a contract with Warner Brothers, she changed her name to Susan Hayward.

Hayward was driven to succeed as an actress and worked virtually non-stop. Offered the starring role in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman in 1947, Hayward dazzled both audiences and critics,receiving her first Academy Award nomination as Best Actress.Hayward received four more nominations over the next twelve years,eventually winning for her work in the wildly successful I Want to Live in 1958. Sadly, the actress’s happiness was eclipsed by the death of her husband Eaton Chalkey. And in 1972, just as she was emerging from her despair, she was diagnosed with cancer.

Refusing to surrender to the illness without a fight, Susan Hayward even managed to present the Academy for Best Actress in1974. On March 14, 1975, at age fifty-six, the irrepressible Brooklyn Bombshell died, leaving behind legions of fans all over the world. READ FROM THE SOURCE