Here is a very rare very early autographed letter by actor, producer, and director Francis X. Bushman, from 1915, with great content on the transition from shorts to features and his new role as a producer. Francis Xavier Bushman (1883 –1966) was an American film actor and director. Bushman modeled for the statue of Nathan Hale at Harvard and the statue of Lord Baltimore in Baltimore.

In July 1912 while Bushman was filming in Wisconsin he was challenged by a local lumberjack to a wrestling match. Bushman won the hour-long impromptu bout and made the most of the resultant positive publicity. rom 1914 to 1917 Bushman was America's most popular leading man, but his 1918 divorce revealed to his bevy of female fans that he was not the eligible bachelor they thought but a married man with five children. He donated land to Sid Grauman, on which now sits Mann's (formerly Grauman's) Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California. Although the nickname "King of the Movies" was eventually given to Clark Gable, it is engraved on Bushman's headstone in Los Angeles.His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early '20s. Bushman, like many of his contemporaries, broke into the moving picture business via the stage. He rose to fame at Essanay Studios in Chicago, where he was first noticed for his muscular, sculpted frame. He appeared in nearly 200 feature film roles—more than 175 films before 1920, and 27 in his screen debut year of 1911 alone. He also worked for the Vitagraph studio before signing with Metro in 1915. He later went into radio and television. Some staining, creasing, small tear at fold. Very rare.

Will ship worldwide. I always combine shipping on multiple orders.

Filmography: