Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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March 27
On This Day
On this day in 1940 Alfred Hitchcock's sinister film "Rebecca" premiered in Los Angeles. It won Best Picture in 1941. It was based on the book by Daphne du Maurier and starred Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine
HITCHCOCK (Alfred, 1899-1980, Film Director)
Superb enormous photo signed in white ink on the black of his suit showing him in typical pose, looking enigmatically at the camera with a slightly twisted smile, 14” x 11”, no place, no date, c. 1940
28910
OLIVIER (Lord Laurence, 1907-1989, Actor & Director)
Fine vintage photo signed in full showing him head and shoulders, in profile, 8½” x 6½”, no place, no date, circa 1945
38331
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