COLLECTION APP. 140 AUTOGRAPHS, AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPHS AND OTHER MEMORABILIA RELATING TO FILM STARS. Mostly American, and primarily of 1940s and 1950s, including Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Roy Rogers, Gene Kelley, Debbie Reynolds, Alfred Hitchcock, Van Johnson, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire, Emmett Kelly, Catherine Deneuve, Steve Allen, George Gobel, Esther Williams, Jack Webb, Kaye Ballard, Johnny Carson, Janet Lee, Count Basie, Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey, and many others. In lot with letters/autographs of several politicians, journalists, cartoonists including Senator Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kate Osann (Tizzy), Walter Lantz autographed animation cel, Stan Drake, O. Soglow (The Little King), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Walter Cronkite, John Cameron Swayze, Norman Rockwell, Ogden Nash, Ben Hibbs (publisher, Saturday Evening Post) , Norman Vincent Peale, Jackie Robinson, Jonas Salk, Stephen Sondheim, and Wernher von Braun. Accompanied by "The Frankfort Morning Times", March 19, 1955; article entitled "Collecting Autographs is Young Boy's Unusual Hoobby" profiles then 12-year old Mickey Russell. (Mickey Russell grew up to be CIA analyst and Fred Astaire enthusiast.
Estimate $600-900
PROVENANCE: Estate of Michael Russell, CIA analyst and Fred Astaire enthusiast
