DAVID NIVEN HOLLYWOOD ICON VERY RARE SIGNED MONTAGE

ONE OF HOLLYWOODS LEADING LEGENDS OF THEIR GOLDEN ERA "DAVID NIVEN"  HAS SIGNED THIS SUPERB ITEM OF MEMORABILIA

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David Niven was born in London, England. He was the son of William Edward Graham Niven (1878 - 1915) and Henrietta Julia Degacher. He was named David for his birth on Saint David's Day. Niven often claimed that he was born in Kirriemuir, Angusshire in 1909, but after his death, his birth certificate showed this was not true.

Henrietta was of French and British ancestry. She was born in Wales, the daughter of army officer William Degacher and Julia Caroline, daughter of Lieutenant General James Webber Smith.Her father, born William Hitchcock, had assumed his mother's maiden name of Degacher in 1874.^[

William Niven, David Niven's legal father, was of Scottish descent, though his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, (1811-1884) was from St. Martins, a village in Perthshire. William was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.

David's mother Henrietta then married Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt. Graham Lord, in NIV: The Authorized Biography of David Niven, suggested that Comyn-Platt and Mrs. Niven had been having an affair for some time before her husband's death, and that Sir Thomas may well have been David Niven's biological father, a supposition which has some support from her children. Michael Munn, in his 2009 biography of Niven, claimed that Niven himself confirmed Comyn-Platt was his father in an interview taped in 1982. A reviewer of Munn's book stated that photographic evidence showing a strong physical resemblance between Niven and Comyn-Platt "would appear to confirm these theories, though photographs can often be misleading."

David Niven had three older siblings: Margaret Joyce ("Joyce"; born 1900); Henry Degacher ("Max"; born 1903), and Grizel Rosemary Graham (born 1907).