Terry Moore

By JEFF BENZIGER —Autograph June 2010

Tom Gregory: Collecting Hollywood’s Stories

“Lucy, I’m ho-ome!” The driver’s voice booms out of the tinny speakers on the small green and white bus. The tourists’ laughter is lost in the sudden roar of a leaf blower. A gardener directs the flurry of leaves away from me as I stumble up the walkway to Tom Gregory’s front door. I’m distracted because I’m not sure my batteries will last the interview, I’ve had to dig through my trunk for a ragged notepad—and I’m late.

The home before me is daunting. I knew the address was in Beverly Hills, but I hadn’t expected this double-lot estate. I should have dressed better.

Tom Gregory is a good looking man with intense dark-framed glasses and short-cropped silvering hair. His engaging manner puts me immediately at ease. He gives me a tour of the house. The foyer’s grand, circular staircase is the starting point for a journey no tourist ever gets to travel. Tom takes me through exquisitely decorated and restored rooms, up one staircase and down another. I get a quick glimpse of a bathroom with lighted alabaster floors. The Golden Age of Hollywood has been faithfully restored and lovingly nourished. The house isn’t about wealth or luxury, it’s about staging—creating a setting for a life of elegance and charm in classic Hollywood style.

Smallville

By JOHN and MARIA JOSE TENUTO —Autograph March 2010

Steve McQueen Autographs

Learn what to look for in Steve McQueen’s autographs in this Autograph magazine signature study.

Vintage Hollywood Signed Photos

As you start to collect vintage Hollywood autographs, there’s a great deal of information you need to gather. Let’s say you’re looking at a photograph inscribed and signed by James Dean. Who was it inscribed to? Did this person really exist? Did this person know James Dean? When was it signed? Dean had a tragically short life—is it realistic that he personally inscribed this photo? What type of photograph is it? Is it some flimsy, single-stock photograph, or a high quality studio photograph, something Dean would have had access to? The secret to collecting the vintage, classic Hollywood autographs of Bogart, Gable, Errol Flynn and the other great stars is to ask and answer these questions.

Superman Through the Ages

By PHILIP MARSH —Autograph October 2009

Elizabeth Taylor – 66 Love Letters

By TRICIA EATON —Autograph February 2009

Carla Laemmle Turns 100

By MICHAEL IWINSKI Featured in Autograph January 2010 Carla Laemmle, the last living link to The Phantom of the Opera and Dracula, celebrated her 100th birthday last October 26. A celebration was held on Soundstage 28 at Universal Studios, and Ms. Laemmle returned to the set where she played the prima ballerina in Phantom of [...]

Affordable History: Celebrity Politicians

By JON ALLAN — Autograph May 2009 In 1965 singer-songwriter and humorist Tom Lehrer wrote a song about entertainers in politics entitled “George Murphy,” a spoof on the recent election of that dancer-actor to the Senate. Hollywood’s often tried to mix Show business with politics, From Helen Gahagan To Ronald Reagan, But Mister Murphy is [...]

Joan Blondell

By JEFF BENZIGER Featured in Autograph April 2009 Those amazing big blue eyes could melt any man quickly. They may have done more to launch Joan Blondell’s career than anything else up until her death in 1979 at age 73. Of course, there was more to Blondell than just the eyes or even those long [...]

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