Bettie Page Signed Lithograph

THE LEGENDARY BETTIE PAGE AS PAINTED BY OLIVIA IN HAND SIGNED, HIGH QUALITY 18 X 24 FINE ART PRINT, “Banned In Boston.” The world’s foremost contemporary pinup artist and Bettie Page, the world’s most popular cheesecake pinup, join together in this fabulous print to bring the most important Bettie Page autographed collectibles possibly ever offered. Signed by both Bettie Page and the artist Olivia. “Last one I have available, all others have sold” ]]> http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/2008/12/12/bettie-page-signed-lithograph-2/feed/ http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/2008/12/12/bettie-page-signed-lithograph/ http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/2008/12/12/bettie-page-signed-lithograph/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:18:45 +0000 admin http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/?p=200

Clark Gable Signed Vintage Photograph

Mini Biography

Clark Gable’s mother died when he was seven months old. At 16 he quit high school, went to work in an Akron (Ohio) tire factory and decided to become an actor after seeing the play “The Bird of Paradise”. He toured in stock companies, worked oil fields and sold ties. In 1924 he reached Hollywood with the help of Portland, Oregon, theatre manager Josephine Dillon, who coached and later married him (she was 17 years his senior). After playing a few bit parts he returned to the stage, becoming lifelong friends with Lionel Barrymore. After several failed screen tests (for Barrymore and Darryl F. Zanuck), Gable was signed in 1930 by MGM’s Irving Thalberg. Joan Crawford asked for him as co-star in Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) and the public loved him manhandling Norma Shearer in A Free Soul (1931) the same year. His unshaven lovemaking with bra-less Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) made him MGM’s most important star. At one point he refused an assignment and the studio punished him by loaning him out to (at the time) low-rent Columbia Pictures, which put him in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934), which won him an Oscar. He returned to far more substantial roles at MGM, such as Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). When his third wife Carole Lombard died in a plane crash returning from a War Bond drive, a grief-stricken Gable joined the US Army Air Force and was off the screen for three years, flying combat missions in Europe. When he returned the studio regarded his salary as excessive and did not renew his contract. He freelanced, but his films didn’t do well at the box office. He announced during filming of The Misfits (1961) that, for the first time, he was to become a father. Two months later he died of a heart attack. He was laid to rest beside Carole Lombard at Forest Lawn Cemetery. ]]> http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/2008/12/11/clark-gable-signed-vintage-photograph/feed/ http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/2008/12/03/duke-snider-autographed-game-worn-jersey-card-by-upper-deck/ http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/2008/12/03/duke-snider-autographed-game-worn-jersey-card-by-upper-deck/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:50:18 +0000 admin http://www.trishautographs.com/blog/?p=187 Duke Snider, Outfield. 

Snider, the 1956 National League home run champion, put together another top-notch campaign that season by collecting 43 round-trippers and 101 RBI. 

This card is #1 of only 5 made, serial number on back is CO-SN1 and is in mint condition and ready to be graded.  Only $75, this would make the perfect gift for any Dodger fan, Los Angeles Dodgers or Brooklyn!

Not listed on the store-front, to purchase, call or email Trish today.

Card has a piece of Duke Sniders actual game worn jersey as a member of the Dodgers.  Very cool!!!!!!

Duke Snider Autographed Game Worn Jersey Upper Deck Trading Card

Susan Hayward Signed Vintage Photograph

 Born Edythe Marrener on June 30, 1918, to a poverty strickenfamily 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 limpand painful memories of a debility she would never forget.

Hayward’s life took an unexpected turn when she was cast as thelead in a school play at age twelve. The attention she receivedquickly turned her into a compulsive ham. By 1935, a sexyswagger had replaced Hayward’s childhood limp, and the gorgeousseventeen-year-old possessed an hourglass figure, a brassy Brooklynaccent and a burning desire for fortune and fame. She beganworking as a model to help support her family, and when she wasfeatured in the Saturday Evening Post in 1937, all of America wasintroduced to the red-headed siren from Brooklyn. The same year,David O. Selznick offered Hayward an audition for the part ofScarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind. Though her lack ofexperience took her out of serious consideration, Hayward decidedto trade in her return ticket and stay in Hollywood. Aftersigning a contract with Warner Brothers, she changed her name toSusan Hayward.

Hayward was driven to succeed as an actress and worked virtuallynon-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 bythe death of her husband Eaton Chalkey. And in 1972, just as shewas emerging from her despair, she was diagnosed with cancer.

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

William Frawley

Biography for
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advertisementDate of Birth
26 February 1887, Burlington, Iowa, USA
Date of Death
3 March 1966, Hollywood, California, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name
William Clement Frawley
Nickname
Bill
Height
5′ 7″ (1.70 m)

Mini Biography
William Frawley was born in Burlington, Iowa. As a boy he sang at St. Paul’s Catholic Church and played at the Burlington Opera House. His first job was as a stenographer for the Union Pacific Railroad. He did vaudeville with his brother Paul, then joined pianist Franz Rath in an act they took to San Francisco in 1910. Four years later he formed a light comedy act with his new wife Edna Louise Broedt, “Frawley and Louise”, touring the Orpheum and Keith circuits until they divorced in 1927. He next moved to Broadway and then, in 1932, to Hollywood with Paramount. By 1951, when he contacted Lucille Ball about a part in her TV show “I Love Lucy” (1951), he had performed in over 100 films. His Fred Mertz role lasted until the show ended in 1960, after which he did a five-year stint on “My Three Sons” (1960). Poor health forced his retirement. He collapsed of a heart attack on March 3, 1966, aged 79, walking along Hollywood Boulevard after seeing a movie. He is buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

You have to love this picture, somewhat goofy!

AEROSPACE AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Following graduation from Princeton University in 1953, Mr. Conrad entered the Navy and became a naval aviator. He then attended the Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, where he was assigned as a Project Test Pilot. Mr. Conrad also served as a flight instructor and performance engineer at the Test Pilot School. After completing his tour of duty at Patuxent River, he served as instructor pilot in F4H Phantoms on VF-121 and was then assigned duty in VF-96 on board USS Ranger.

In September of 1962, Mr. Conrad was selected as an astronaut by NASA. His first flight was Gemini V, which established the space endurance record and placed the United States in the lead for man-hours in space. As commander of Gemini XI, Mr. Conrad helped to set a world’s altitude record. He then served as commander of Apollo XII, the second lunar landing. On Mr. Conrad’s final mission, he served as commander of Skylab II, the first United States Space Station.

In December 1973, after serving 20 years (11 of which were as an astronaut in the space program), Mr. Conrad retired from the U.S. Navy to accept a position as Vice President - Operations and Chief Operating Office of American Television and Communications Corporation (ATC). At ATC, he was responsible for both the operation of existing systems and the national development of new cable television systems. In 1976, he resigned from ATC to accept the position of Vice President and consultant to McDonnell Douglas Corporation. In 1978, he became Vice President of marketing and was responsible for all commercial and military sales for Douglas Aircraft Company. Mr. Conrad then became Senior Vice President-Marketing in 1980. He was appointed as Senior Vice President Marketing and Product Support in 1982 and 1984, was named Staff Vice President of International Business Development for McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

In 1990, Mr. Conrad became Staff Vice President - New Business for McDonell Douglas Space Company, where he participated in research and development for the Space Exploration Initiative. Included for research and development in the Space Exploration Initiative are the construction of Space Station Freedom, the return to and colonization of the Moon, and the exploration of Mars. Mr. Conrad contributed his expertise on SSTO, the Single-Stage-To-Orbit and return space transportation system called the Delta Clipper. In 1993, Mr. Conrad became Vice President-Project Development.

Mr. Conrad died July 8, 1999 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Ojai, California.

Carolyn Jones Autographed Photograph