CHAPLIN CHARLES: (1889-1977) English film comedian, Academy Award winner. A bold black fountain pen ink signature ...

CHAPLIN CHARLES: (1889-1977) English film comedian, Academy Award winner. A bold black fountain pen ink signature ('Yours sincerely, Charles Chaplin') and date, 1st May 1954, in his hand on a small 4to page removed from an album. 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 20th 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.