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13056
Priscilla Bonner
Autograph ALS
ON 3x5
card
both sides signed on the back - text of letter is below
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authentically signed (not printed) inscribed and dated May 1991 a little over 2 years before she passed away. Text of her letter follows:
"My dear young friend Mary Anne Styburski
I am pleased, of course, that you enjoyed the picture "It" [a film from 1927] and my performance after all these years. Yes it was exciting working with Clara Bow. She was beautiful and a very good actress. The other things that you read are also true. Frank Capra in the Strong Man [1926, his first feature as director] that is what made him an important director- a Star Director. I do not have any more fan pictures and I have not sat for any for a long time. I retired many years [1929] ago and it is tiring and I am old. I have moved but your letter finally reached me. I wish you a good life and happiness and my best thoughts go to you - Cordally [sic - cordially] Priscilla Bonner 5-5-91"
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Priscilla Bonner (February 17, 1899 February 21, 1996) was an American silent film actress who specialized in portraying virginal, innocent heroines. In 1916 when living in Adrian, Michigan, Bonner answered an open call to audition for the movie The Romance of Miss Adrian. Using her dance skills she won a part in the picture. In Los Angeles, she met Charles Ray, and appeared in the 1920 film Homer Comes Home, after being signed by MGM that year. She went on to co-star with Jack Pickford in The Man Who Had Everything (1920), Lon Chaney, Sr. in Shadows (1922), Colleen Moore in April Showers, and comedian Harry Langdon in The Strong Man. In 1925 she successfully sued Warner Bros. and won a substantial cash settlement when she was originally chosen and then dropped as leading lady from John Barrymore's The Sea Beast in favor of Barrymore's new real life love interest Dolores Costello. In 1927, Bonner was loaned to Paramount Pictures to co-star in the box office hit It, starring Clara Bow. Her last film was in 1929.
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