KATHARINE HEPBURN vintage signed paper HOLLYWOOD 1940`

HISTORY & PROVENANCE of this signature

Signature removed from a fascinating album that contained nearly 800 vintage signatures of entertainers and other personalities, collected `IN PERSON` during the 1930s–1940s. From the Golden Age of showbiz. A fascinating feature of the collection was the original collector’s careful documentation of virtually every signature with the year and the location where it was obtained.[ this information lost on most items as they have now been removed from album, where date info was available we have indicated in title] She , Marguerite Roberts [ SEE BELOW for info on her], obviously had a comprehensive knowledge of Hollywood’s hottest hot spots, as evidenced by the frequent appearance of such legendary celebrity hangouts as the Brown Derby, Ciro’s, Romanoff’s, Mocambo, the Clover Club, and the Hollywood Canteen; hundreds more of the signatures were obtained at various other restaurants, theaters, studios, and hotels. The signatures have been trimmed around their contours (sometimes, it must be said, rather closely), and were mounted several to a page along with small magazine photos, and most (but not all) of the slips outlined in black crayon as a “crowning” touch. The condition was described by R&R auctions as `In good to very good condition overall, with trimming and outlining as noted above, scattered soiling and toning, and an occasional brush or smudge`. Most of the signatures in this well-loved, one-of-a-kind collection are quite clear and dark, and a great many examples can be creatively matted or mounted to a similarly colored background as part of an appealing display PLEASE see scan for any faults, shape of signed piece, dedications etc, `WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET`. , the price this item has been offered at reflects all the above points
INFORMATION ON THE ORIGINAL COLLECTOR [as we understand it after intensive internet research]
Marguerite Roberts was born on 21st February, 1905. She moved to Hollywood and found work as a secretary at Fox. Her real desire was to be a screenwriter and she sold her first script in 1931. This was followed by Jimmy and Sally (1933), College Scandal (1935), Men Without Names (1935), Hollywood Boulevard (1936) and Wild Money (1937).
In 1938 she married the writer John Sanford. She was now a $2,500-a-week contract writer at MGM. She later claimed she preferred writing roles for tough men: "I was weaned on stories about gunfighters and their doings, and I know all the lingo too. My grandfather came West as far as Colorado by covered wagon. He was a sheriff in the state's wildest days." Other screenplays by Roberts include Escape (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), Dragon Seed (1944), Undercurrent (1946), The Sea of Grass (1947), Desire Me (1947), If Winter Comes (1947), Ambush (1949), Soldiers Three (1951) and Ivanhoe (1951)
.Roberts was a member of the American Communist Party and in 1951 she was ordered to appear before the House of Un-American Activities Committee. Roberts and her husband refused to name fellow members of the party and were both blacklisted.
After the blacklist was lifted Roberts wrote Diamond Head (1963), Rampage (1963), Love Has Many Faces (1965), Five Card Stud (1968), True Grit (1969), Norwood (1970), Shoot Out (1971) and Red Sky in the Morning (1971)
.Marguerite Roberts died on 17th February, 1989.

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