WALTER HUSTON - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1938 - HFSID 289057

WALTER HUSTON
Seated in three piece suit, inscribed in person to collector Saul Goodman
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Saul/Walter Huston". B/w, 8x10. Collector's ink stamp on verso dates signature: September 3, 1938. Canadian-born actor Walter Huston (1883-1950), launched his movie career with Gentlemen of the Press (1929), and spent the 1930s playing everything from a Mexican bandit to President Lincoln. In the 1938 Broadway musical comedy, Knickerbocker Holiday, Huston, in the role of a 17th century New Amsterdam Governor, achieved theatrical immortality with his poignant rendition of the show's top tune, "September Song". Throughout the 1940s, he offered a gallery of memorable screen portrayals, from the diabolical Mr. Scratch in All That Money Can Buy (1941) to George M. Cohan's father in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Still, it was only after removing his expensive false teeth and trading his fancy duds for a dusty hobo's outfit that the actor won an Academy Award for his portrayal of the cackling old prospector Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), directed by his son, John Huston. Saul Goodman (1919-2003), a New York business man by day, pursued his love of film and theatre in the evening, making friends with many celebrities. While other autograph seekers offered album leaves, Goodman presented stars with snazzy photographs, a rarity then, to sign in fountain pen. Scattered creases and surface marks. Paperclip impressions on right edge. Otherwise, fine condition.