GEO M COHAN+FRANKENSTEIN’s O P HEGGIE+LAURETTE TAYLOR+G.ARLISS+H.B.WARNER

Description: SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO GEORGE ARLISS Oscar WinnerJULIA ARTHUR (CHENEY)Uncle Tom’s CabinELEANORA DE CISNEROS Opera SingerGEORGE M COHAN Actor Dramatist ComposerJAMES K HACKETT Prisoner of ZendaO P HEGGIE Bride of Frankenstein HermitGEORGE MACFARLANE Up The RiverJ HARTLEY MANNERS Peg O’ My Heart AuthorBURR MCINTOSH Way Down East fatherBERYL MERCER All Quiet + Public Enemy MotherCHAUNCEY OLCOTT Actor Singer ComposerJAMES T POWERS Musical ComedyLAURETTE TAYLOR Glass MenagerieHELEN WAREMorning Glory; D W Griffith LincolnH B WARNER Capra films; Oscar Nomineee AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO SIGNED BY 15 Mounted on Black BackingToning Wear and Surface Loss THE SIGNERS George Arliss (1868 – 1946) was an actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker. He was the first British actor to win an Oscar – which he won for his in Disraeli (1929). He specialized in biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), and light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932). His career ranged from being a star of the legitimate theatre, then silent films, then sound films. Julia Arthur(1869-1950) gained her first real success at the Union Square Theatre in New York in The Black Masque (1892). it secured her fame, and a few weeks later she became leading woman in A.M. Palmer's stock company, playing Lady Windermere in Lady Windermere's Fan (1893) – her Broadway debut. Her greatest triumph was in Mercedes, a short play by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. She made her London debut in 1895, as leading woman, next to Ellen Terry. She returned to America in 1896 with the Henry Irving-Ellen Terry company, and was so heartily received that she decided to appear the following season with her own company. On October 14, 1897. From 1908 - 1920 she made ten silents, including King Lear and Uncle Tom’s Cabin Eleanora De Cisneros (1878 – 1934) was an opera singer for the Metropolitan Opera company as one of their principal performers. She was the first American-trained opera singer hired by the Met. She warbled at major opera houses in the United States, Cuba, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South America and Russia, and toured the United States during World War I, singing in plays at no charge to raise funds for the Red Cross. and marketing millions of dollars worth of Liberty bonds. George M Cohan (1878 - 1942) was an entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer and theatrical producer. He began his career as a child, performing with his parents and sister in a vaudeville act known as "The Four Cohans". Beginning with Little Johnny Jones in 1904, he wrote, composed, produced, and appeared in more than three dozen Broadway musicals. Cohan wrote more than 50 shows and published more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including the standards "Over There", "Give My Regards to Broadway", "The Yankee Doodle Boy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag". As a composer, he was one of the early members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He displayed remarkable theatrical longevity, appearing in films until the 1930s and continuing to perform as a headline artist until 1940. Known in the decade before World War I as "the man who owned Broadway", he is considered a father of American musical comedy. His life and music were depicted in the Oscar-winning Cagney biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and the 1968 musical George M!. A statue of Cohan stands in Times Square. James K Hackett(1869-1926) —son of an elderly actor — made his debut as an actor in Philadelphia in The Broken Seal (1892). Later in the decade, he played Romeo to Olga Nethersole's Juliet, and Mercutio to Maude Adams's Juliet. After a year on tour, Hackett opened in a adaptation of Rupert of Hentzau at Broadway’s Lyceum (1899) playing King Rudolf and his lookalike Rudolf Rassendyll.In 1913, Adolph Zukor lured Hackett from the stage to star in director Edwin Porter's film The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), for a role which Hackett had played in the theater numerous times. Since feature films were in their infancy, Hackett was at first reluctant to take the part. Zukor convinced Hackett in person, and Hackett starred in Zenda and two subsequent silents. O P Heggie(1877 – 1936) was an Australian film and theatre actor best known for portraying the hermit who befriends the Monster in the film Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - the inspiration for Gene Hackman’s character in Young Frankenstein Heggie made his professional debut in 1900 in Sydney, in 1900. He left Australia in 1906 for England and came to the notice of Ellen Terry with his "Pippy" in the Lemonade Boy (October 1906). She hired him in January 1907 for her tour of America Bavk in England, Heggie played Sherlock Holmes in The Speckled Band, a portrayal much admired by Arthur Conan Doyle. Transferring to Broadway in 1915, he appeared in Shakespeare, Shaw, the title role in Kaufman and Ferber’s Minick (1924). In 1927, he was seen by Norma Shearer and her husband, producer Irving Thalberg, in Trelawny of the Wells. The couple persuaded Heggie to move to Hollywood, where he made his first film appearance in Shearer’s silent The Actress (1928) starring Shearer and based on the stage show. His later film appearances include as Louis XI of France in The Vagabond King (1930) and Anne Shirley's adoptive father in Anne of Green Gables (1934). His last work on Broadway was as William Owen in The Green Bay Tree (1933). Heggie appeared in at least 27 films, between 1928 and his death in 1936. Partial filmography The Actress (1928) – Vice-Chancellor Sir William Gower The Letter (1929) – Howard Joyce The Wheel of Life (1929) – Col. John Dangan The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) – Inspector Nayland Smith The Mighty (1929) – J.K. Patterson The Vagabond King (1930) – King Louis XI The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930) – Inspector Nayland Smith One Romantic Night (1930) – Father Benedict The Bad Man (1930) – Henry Taylor Playboy of Paris (1930) – Philibert Sunny (1930) – Peters East Lynne (1931) – Lord Mount Severn Too Young to Marry (1931) – Cyrus Bumpstead The Woman Between (1931) – John Whitcomb Devotion (1931) – Mr. Emmet Mortimer Smilin' Through (1932) – Dr. Owen The King's Vacation (1933) – Joel Thorpe Zoo in Budapest (1933) – Dr. Grunbaum Midnight (1934) – Edward Weldon The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) – Abbe Faria Peck's Bad Boy (1934) – Duffy Anne of Green Gables (1934) – Matthew Cuthbert A Dog of Flanders (1935) – Grandfather Jehan Daas James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – Hermit Chasing Yesterday (1935) – Sylvestre Bonnard Ginger (1935) – Rexford Whittington John Ford’s The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) – Dr. MacIntyre George Macfarlane(1878 – 1932) was a Canadian- actor of stage and screen. His short film career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. He was also a was very popular recording artist during World War I, with at least one song which reached number one on the charts in 1915. His career was cut short when he died in a car crash in 1932. FILMS 1917Webb Singing Pictures Singer RevelryDan Lurcock 1928SalvationBrady 1929 Frozen JusticeSinger 1929Nix on DamesEd Foster 1929 The Painted AngelOldfield 1929 South Sea Rose Tavern keeper and trader 1929 Wall Street Ed Foster 1930 Cameo KirbyGeorge 1930 Double Cross Roads Warden 1930 Wheeler Woolsey Half Shot at Sunrise Colonel Marshall 1930 Happy Days Interlocutor 1930Up the River Jessup 1931Behind Office Doors 1931 Rich Man's FollyMarston 1932The Heart of New York Marshall 1932 Union Depot Train caller 1930Taxi!Father Nulty 1930The Famous Ferguson Case 1932 Fireman Save My Child St. Louis fire chief J Hartley Manners (1870 – 1928) was a London playwright of Irish extraction who most notably wrote Peg o' My Heart (1912) for his wife, Laurette Taylor, in one of her greatest Broadway triumphs. He also penned the 1922 silent screen adaptation for Laurette. The 1933 sound remake with Marion Davies was adapted from Manners' play. Manners also wrote two 1924 silent film screenplays which starred his wife in her only two other motion picture appearances, Happiness adapted from his play, and One Night in Rome. The latter his wife particularly enjoyed and kept a personal print to run over and over for guests. Manners' one-act radio play The Queen's Messenger was adapted to become the first ever broadcast television drama, only three months before his death in December 1928. Burr McIntosh(1862 – 1942) was a lecturer, photographer, film studio owner, silent film actor, author, publisher of The Burr McIntosh Monthly, reporter and a pioneer in the early film and radio business. Partial filmography The New Adventures of J. Rufus Wallingford (1915) Way Down East (1920) as Lillian Gish’s cruel father The Exciters (1923) On the Banks of the Wabash (1923) Restless Wives (1924) Virtuous Liars (1924) The Spitfire (1924) The Average Woman (1924) Lend Me Your Husband (1924) Camille of the Barbary Coast (1925) Enemies of Youth (1925) The Green Archer (1925) The Wilderness Woman (1926) The Buckaroo Kid (1926) Lightning Reporter (1926) The Golden Stallion (1927) See You in Jail (1927) Fire and Steel (1927) Breakfast at Sunrise (1927) A Hero for a Night (1927) Hazardous Valley (1927) Once and Forever (1927) Framed (1927) Taxi! Taxi! (1927) The Fourflusher (1928) Sailors' Wives (1928) The Grip of the Yukon (1928) Lilac Time (1928) The Adorable Cheat (1928) Fancy Baggage (1929) Skinner Steps Out (1929) Laurel and Hardy’s The Rogue Song (1930) A Private Scandal (1931) Command Performance (1931) The Richest Girl in the World (1934) Beryl Mercer(1882-1939) stage debuted at age 4 in London, and returned to the stage when ten. Her Broadway 1906 play marked her Broadway debut came in 1906. Mercer was honored by Dowager Queen Alexandra for her work as an entertainer during WWI Mercer's film debut came in The Christian, and soon became known for her motherly roles e.g. a sad mom to Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and James Cagney in The Public Enemy (1931). She also regularly limned grandma, cooks or maids in some high-profile films. She graced over 50 films between 1916 and 1939, and her career was at a peak in the 1930s when she regularly appeared in several films per year. Filmography The Shulamite (1915) The Final Curtain (1916) – Mary Broken Chains (1922) – Mrs. Mulcahy The Christian (1923) – Liza We Americans (1928) – Mrs. Levine Mother's Boy (1929) – Mrs.O'Day Three Live Ghosts (1929) – Mrs. Gubbins Seven Days' Leave (1930) – Sarah Ann Dowey All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) – Paul's Mother Dumbbells in Ermine (1930) – Grandma Corey In Gay Madrid (1930) – Doña Concha Common Clay (1930) – Mrs. Neal The Matrimonial Bed (1930) – Corinne An Intimate Dinner in Celebration of Warner Bros. Silver Jubilee (1930, Short) – Mrs. Warner Bros. Pictures Outward Bound (1930) – Mrs. Midget Inspiration (1931) – Marthe, Yvonne's Maid East Lynne (1931) – Joyce The Public Enemy (1931) – Ma Powers The Sky Spider (1931) – Mother Morgan The Man in Possession (1931) – Mrs. Dabney The Miracle Woman (1931) – Mrs. Higgins Merely Mary Ann (1931) – Mrs. Leadbatter Are These Our Children? (1931) – Mrs. Martin – Eddie's Grandma Forgotten Women (1931) – Fern Madden Lovers Courageous (1932) – Mrs. Smith Devil's Lottery (1932) – Mrs. Mary Ann Meech Lena Rivers (1932) – Grandmother Nichols Young America (1932) – Grandma Beamish Unholy Love (1932) – Mrs. Cawley No Greater Love (1932) – Mrs. Burns Midnight Morals (1932) – Mother O'Brien, the Prison Matron Smilin' Through (1932) – Mrs. Crouch Six Hours to Live (1932) – The Widow Cavalcade (1933) – Cook Her Splendid Folly (1933) – Mrs. McAllister Supernatural (1933) – Madame Gourjan, Paul's Landlady Blind Adventure (1933) – Elsie Berkeley Square (1933) – Mrs. Barwick Broken Dreams (1933) – Mom Change of Heart (1934) – Harriet Hawkins Jane Eyre (1934) – Mrs. Fairfax The Richest Girl in the World (1934) – Marie The Little Minister (1934) – Margaret Age of Indiscretion (1935) – Mrs. Williams Forbidden Heaven (1935) – Agnes, 'The Duchess' Hitch Hike Lady (1935) – Mrs. Bayne Magnificent Obsession (1935) – Mrs. Eden Three Live Ghosts (1936) – Mrs. Gibbins My Marriage (1936) – Mrs. Dolan Call It a Day (1937) – Mrs. Elkins, the Cook Night Must Fall (1937) – Saleslady The Little Princess (1939) – Queen Victoria The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) – Mrs. Jennifer Mortimer The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939) – Queen Victoria A Woman Is the Judge (1939) – Mrs. Butler (final film role) . Chauncey Olcott(1858 - 1932) was an American stage actor, songwriter and singer of Irish descent who captured the mood of his Irish-American audience by combining melodic and rhythmic phrases from traditional Irish music with melancholy sentiment. Some numbers from his musicals became popular, such as "My Wild Irish Rose" and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" In 1925, a serious illness forced him to retire, and he moved to Monte Carlo where he died of pernicious anemia in 1932. His body was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. Dennis Morgan starred as Chauncey Olcott opposite Andrea King as Lillian Russell in My Wild Irish Rose (1947) James T Powers(1862 – 1943) was a stage actor, vocalist, and lyricist. He began on the Boston stage in 1880 and subsequently spent time in circuses and later, in vaudevilles. By the 1890s, he’d acted in many American versions of the so-called Gaiety musicals, originating in the London's West End, then coming into vogue in the United States.His entire career was spent in live theatre, but for a short film from 1905 Digesting a Joke. Laurette Taylor (1883 - 1946) was a stage giant and silent film star who is particularly well known for her string for her naturalistic acting in star parts — notably in Peg o My Heart (1912) (her biggest hit, on Broadway alone the show ran a record 607 times, and then 692 times in a 1921 revival), and especially for originating the role of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie.It took years for the Peg to be filmed. Its director, King Vidor remembered: “Although I had never seen Miss Taylor, her name carried with it a certain magic to my young ears." Taylor filmed follow-up silents: Happiness, and then One Night in Rome, yet never appeared in another film. Selznick sound-tested her for a role in his The Young in Heart the Minnie Dupree was cast — the test exists online — but Taylor declined the part, and Minnie Dupree was cast. LegacyIn 1960, the play Laurette, starred Judy Holliday and was directed by José Quintero, George Cukor tried unsuccessfully to launch a film version of Taylor's life.In 1963, a musical version of Laurette opened on Broadway, starring Mary Martin, with a score by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz. Notable fans Noel Coward’s Hay Fever was inspired by a weekend visit with Manners and Taylor Uta Hagen called Taylor her”idol" — "an inspiration" — as the ultimate example of an actor working from the inside out. Charles Durning: “I thought they pulled her off the street. She was...so natural".Martin Landau said Taylor "was almost like this woman had found her way into the theatre, through the stage door, and was sort of wandering around the kitchen".[Peg Entwistle was a fan from the age of 13, having seen Taylor in 1921 the revival of Peg O' My Heart. Entwistle was so influenced by Taylor's performance she changed her name from Millicent to Peg, and in 1932, co-starred with Taylor on Broadway in James Barrie's comedy Alice Sit-by-the-Fire Helen Ware(1877-1939) debuted on Broadwayin 1899 with Maude Adams, and by her 30s, she was playing the character parts for which she became famous. She began in silent films in 1914 and continued into the sound era. Filmography Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914) The Price (1915) Cross Currents (1915) Secret Love (1916) The Garden of Allah (1916) The Haunted Pajamas (1917) National Red Cross Pageant (1917) Thieves' Gold (1918) The Deep Purple (1920) Colorado Pluck (1921) Clara Bow’s Beyond the Rainbow (1922) Fascination (1922) Mark of the Beast (1923) Soul-Fire (1925) Napoleon's Barber (1928) New Year's Eve (1929) Speakeasy (1929) The Virginian (1929) as Mrs. 'Ma' Taylor Half Way to Heaven (1929) Slightly Scarlet (1930) She's My Weakness (1930) D W Griffith Abraham Lincoln (1930) One Night at Susie's (1930) Tol'able David (1930) Command Performance (1931) Party Husband (1931) I Take This Woman (1931) The Reckless Hour (1931) The Night of June 13 (1931) Flaming Gold (1932) Ladies They Talk About (1933) Girl Missing (1933) The Keyhole (1933) The Warrior's Husband (1933) She Had to Say Yes (1933) Morning Glory (1933) Sadie McKee (1934) That's Gratitude (1934) Secret of the Chateau (1934) Romance in Manhattan (1935) What's the Idea? (1935) H B Warner(1876 – 1958) was a film and theatre actor. He was popular during the silent era and played Jesus Christ in DeMille’s The King of Kings (1927). In later years, he successfully slid into supporting roles, appearing in numerous Frank Capra films. Warner's most recognizable role to modern audiences is Mr. Gower in Capra’s It's a Wonderful Life and Capra’s Lost Horizon (1937) as Chang, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. HISTORY OF THE PHOTO BILLBOARDAPRIL 27, 1918 STARS WILL TOUR COUNTRYFOR BENEFIT OF RED CROSS J. Hartley Manners' Tragi-Comedy, Out There, Selected as Play-Cast Practically Completed -First Performance Scheduled for Washington, May 13 (New York, April 22)Commencing May 13 at the National Theater, Washington, D. C., a company made up of many prominent actors and actresses will make a three weeks' tour of the country in J. Hartley Manners' tragi-comedy, Out There, a play built around the Red Cross idea, for the benefit of the American Red Cross.Every one of the cast has volunteered to contribute his or her services entirely free of charge and will pay their personal expenses while on tour.Many for whom there was no possible place on the program also volunteered.Those already selected for roles include George Arliss, George M. Cohan, H. B. Warner, Chauncey Olcott, James K. Hackett, James T. Powers, George MacFarlane, Laurette Taylor. Others who have been asked and will likely participate are: Grace George, Viola Allen and Arnold Daly. Mrs. Fiske has agreed to appear and read a Red Cross appeal which President Wilson has been asked to write.Following, the first performance the itinerary includes one-night stands in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Mass.; Buffalo, Pittsburg, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit and Cleveland. Four performances are to be given in Greater New York, one in Brooklyn and three on Broadway.Klaw & Erlanger, who are identified with Cohan & Harris and George C. Tyler in the promotion and organization of the project, have offered to turn over their theaters without charge in each of the cities visited.The local arrangement in each of the cities visited will be in direct charge of the Red Cross workers, who will undertake the sale of tickets and other details. Because of the prominence of the stars who are offered and the nature of the cause for which the performances are to be given it has been decided to charge $10 for the orchestra seats and to scale this down to $2 for the cheapest seats.Burr McIntosh has consented to travel with the company and auction off in each city visited an elaborate souvenir program autographed by each member of the company. BILLBOARDMAY 11, 1918 The New York performance of Out There, with the all-star cast, which will tour the country for the $100,000,000 fund of the American Red Cross, will be given at the Century Theater May 17-18. The tour will begin in Washington May 13. The final additions to the cast have been made, the complete roster now including Mrs. Fiske, George Arliss, George M. Cohan, Laurette Taylor, James T. Powers, H. B. Warner, James K. Hackett, Mme. Eleanora de Cisneros, Helen Ware, Chauncey Olcott, Julia Arthur, George MacFarlane, Beryl Mercer and Burr McIntosh. The original plan to charge $10 a seat for all performances has been abandoned, the price being changed to $5. INSURED MEDIA MAIL SHIPPINGIN A BOX WITHIN TWO BUSINESSDAYS OF PAYMENT

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