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Doris Kenyon AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOGRAPH Film Actress

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The following item is from a private collection of autographed photographs and letters from early Hollywood stars, including famous actors and actresses in silent films and early talkies (1920s-1930s). This is a hand-signed item, not a reprint, autoprint, or rubber stamp. These wonderful items, which are all being sold during this auction, were obtained through the mail around 1925 by a devoted film fan in Coronation, Alberta, who appeared to have taken on a bet from a cynical friend who held that one could not get personal responses to correspondence from these famous individuals. These items show nicely with some mild to moderate age/wear.Celebrity name: Doris Kenyon
Signed Item: Photograph with the original envelope
Hand inscription: "For Harvey E. Allan With my best wishes and friendly greeting ------ "

Biography: In 1915 Doris Kenyon made her first film, The Rack, with World Film Company of Fort Lee, New Jersey. One of the most remembered films of her early career is Monsieur Beaucaire (1924). In this production she starred opposite Rudolph Valentino. She was with Paramount Pictures for the studio's first dramatic, all-talking movie, Interference, in 1928. Kenyon was cast opposite actor George Arliss in two films. These are Alexander Hamilton (1931) and Voltaire (1933). She particpated in Counsellor at Law (1933) with John Barrymore. In the autumn of 1935 Doris appeared with Ramon Navarro in the play, A Royal Miscarriage, in London, England. After sixty movies, Kenyon's picture career ended with a cameo in The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). Kenyon continued her acting career in television in the 1950s. She was cast in episodes of The Secret Storm (1954), Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, All Our Yesterdays (1958), and 77 Sunset Strip. Following her film career she launched a singing career which she had first pursued as a girl. She gave this up to live in semi-retirement in Beverly Hills, California. Kenyon was married a number of times. Her first husband was the actor Milton Sills. He wed Kenyon in 1926. She was widowed in 1930. She had one son with Sills named Kenyon. She married prosperous New York real estate broker, Arthur Hopkins, in 1933. The two divorced the following year, citing incompatibility. In 1938 Doris married Albert D. Lasker, owner of Lord & Thomas, a prosperous advertising agency. They divorced in 1939. Her final marriage was to Bronislaw Mlynarski. He was the son of a Polish composer and the brother-in-law of Arthur Rubenstein. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50

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