LANCASTER BURT: (1913-1994) American Actor, Academy Award winner. Unusual signed and inscribed page by Lancaster, `To Marina Freddi Chaliapine, with my good wish, Sincerely - Burt Lancaster´. Signed and inscribed in bold black ink to an 8.5 x 10.5 (21,5 x 27 cm) page removed from an autograph album. Also dated beneath his signature, 25^th November 1969, in his hand. Small overall minor age toning to edges, otherwise about VG

 

Provenance: The present page originates from the personal autograph album of Marina Chaliapin (1912-2009), the daughter of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin (1873-1938), widely regarded as one of the finest bass singers of the 20^th century, and his mistress Marina Petsold (1882-1964) who became the singer's second wife in 1927. Chaliapin's daughter was married to Luigi Freddi (1895-1977) the Italian journalist and politician who edited the journal Il Popolo d'Italia and who was also hugely influential in Italian political cinema in the second half of the 1930s and beginning of the 1940s