MACHATY GUSTAV: (1901-1963) Czech film director of Erotikon and Ecstasy, the latter of which made both Machaty, and ...

MACHATY GUSTAV: (1901-1963) Czech film director of Erotikon and Ecstasy, the latter of which made both Machaty, and lead actress Hedy Lamarr, internationally famous. A large, bold purple fountain pen ink signature ('Gustav Machaty') and inscription, in Czech, on a 4to page removed from an autograph album, dated 20th June (?) 1936 in his hand. Scarce. 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.