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Warner Baxter Signed Vintage Unique PSA/DNA Photo Hollywood Academy Oscar Winner

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Description

This is an extremely rare unique snapshot photo most likely taken in the 1930s or 1940s. It came from an incredible collection where the collector lived near the Hollywood studios and he would take candid pics of the stars and then after having them developed would ask them to sign their unique photos. Mr. Baxter obviously took great pride in this photo as it is 100% BIG and BOLD. The auto is authenticated by PSA/DNA and also Beckett as indicated by the BAS sticker on the back of the photo.Mr. Baxter was an early Academy Award Oscar Winner for his role as the Cisco Kid in "Old Arizona" in 1928!!! This beauty could reside in a Hollywood Museum and it would be a showpiece! .95 for USA P&H! Thanks! I'll start this piece of history at 1 penny with no reserve to give everyone a fair chance!
Bio:
Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent." When he was age 9, his widowed mother moved to San Francisco where, following the earthquake of 1906, his family lived in a tent for two weeks "in mortal terror of the fire." By 1910 he was in vaudeville and from there went on to Broadway plays and movies. A matinée idol in the silents, he came to prominence as the Cisco Kid with
In Old Arizona
(1928), for which he won an Oscar. He went on to star with
Myrna Loy
in
Penthouse
(1933) and to what many consider his best role, that of the doctor who treated
Abraham Lincoln
's assassin, in
The Prisoner of Shark Island
(1936). That year his 4,000 income topped the industry. In 1943, after slipping into a string of B-pictures, he began his Dr. Ordway "Crime Doctor" series with
Crime Doctor
(1943). He had suffered a nervous breakdown, and these pictures were easy on him (studio sets for one month, two films a year). Following a lobotomy to relieve pains of arthritis, he died of pneumonia. Died at age 62.