This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/7/2025
An autograph album with numerous signatures of Golden Age stars. A 1930s oblong green leather autograph album with Art Deco clasp and vari-colored sheets within signed by Walt Disney and about a dozen other Golden Age stars. The album 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. Some rubbing and stains to the album exterior, some spotting within and a faint tideline from an old dampstain to the upper page extremity and album rear.
The signatures within this album were collected in 1939 by a young woman "brought to California by her great Aunt Mary Hildreth whose husband Samuel Clay Hildreth was a famous horse trainer in the early part of the 20th century. They attended the races at Santa Anita and many of the ‘stars’ were there." The album includes sheets signed by Walt Disney, Hal Roach (the producer/studio owner who was good friends with Disney), Joan Blondell, Mickey Rooney, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple (on a mounted slip), tennis champion Helen Wills Moody with a small caricature and the date of 1939, Conrad Nagle, Joan Fontaine, Edward Arnold, Leslie Howard, and Olivia de Havilland.