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 [...]

Forrest J Ackerman Estate Auction

Known as “Uncle Forry” to horror and sci-fi fans all over the world, AUTOGRAPH examines the legend’s estate auction and the notable collection that was left behind.

Bookshelf: Snapshots of Larry McMurtry

By WILLIAM L. BUTTS Featured in Autograph March 2009 Nearly 25 years ago this budding bibliophile mailed novelist Larry McMurtry an oddball edition of The Last Picture Show for signing—bound in cheesy black paper over boards stamped to resemble tooled leather, published by an outfit named International Collectors Library. McMurtry returned it promptly, graciously inscribed [...]

Sirens: Loni Anderson

By JEFF BENZIGER Featured in Autograph March 2009 The 1970s were not only smoking hot from the disco dance floors, but because blonde bombshell Loni Anderson graced American TV sets and theaters, leading up to her role in the 1980s TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. She is Sirens’ first-ever look at a ’70s-’80s babe. Now [...]

Return to Forbidden Planet

By BOBBY REED Featured in Autograph March 2009 More than 50 years after its original release, Forbidden Planet continues to beckon fans from across the cosmos. The 1956 film has become a cornerstone of the science-fiction genre because of its top-notch production values, futuristic soundtrack and a screenplay partially inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The [...]

Stella Stevens

By JEFF BENZIGER —Autograph February 2009 Even the most devout Jerry Lewis fan watching the 1963 film The Nutty Professor may be distracted from his antics in a major way because of that beautiful blonde with him. Stella Stevens, Lewis’ love object in the comedy, is without a doubt one of the prettiest women to [...]

Who Is Lee Correy?

By PATRICK DOUGLAS — Autograph February 2009 In his memoir the formative years of Model Rocketry 1957-1962, G. Harry Stine wrote the self observation, “It is not often that an aerospace historian has the opportunity to participate in the making of history,” that became quite prophetic to me after receiving a gift. My interest in Stine’s [...]

Virginia Davis: Disney’s First Star

By MARGARET KERRY — Autograph February 2009 Many disney fans are unaware that before the mouse, there was 4-year-old Alice. Virginia Davis is the Disney legend who starred as Alice in the young director’s first live-action animated short film, Alice’s Wonderland, which led to a series of 14 Alice Comedies. As two of Walt Disney’s earliest [...]

Sirens: May Britt

By JEFF BENZIGER Featured in Autograph January 2009 Those who know how to reach May Britt for an autograph have one up on their fellow collectors. Having given up acting for the art canvas decades ago, the former sex-pot actress leads a low-key life today and her address has eluded us. In other words, collectors [...]

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