CHARLES FARRELL (c.1920s) - Vintage Original U.S. 11x14 Signed Still Photograph

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Vintage original 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.) U.S. double-weight still photograph, autographed by Charles Farrell, fine condition.

The image features a beautiful interior studio publicity portrait shot of handsome screen actor Charles Farrell wearing a casual white shirt and shown in profile. This photograph came from a Hollywood memorabilia collector who has been collecting for over 30 years and states that the still was autographed by Charles Farrell later in his life. The still is printed on card stock paper and is in fine condition with some wear and creasing around the edges and some cracking on the lower right corner measuring approximately 1.5 in. There are also some scratch lines behind Mr. Farrell's ear and under his sideburn which measure approximately 1.75 in.

Charles Farrell (August 9, 1901 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films including Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star. Farrell began his career in Hollywood as a bit player for Paramount Pictures and later did extra work for films ranging from The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Lon Chaney, Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments and The Cheat with Pola Negri. Farrell continued to work throughout the next few years in relatively minor roles without much success until he was signed by Fox Studios and was paired with fellow newcomer Janet Gaynor in the romantic drama Seventh Heaven, directed by the renowned Frank Borzage The film was a public and critical success and Farrell and Gaynor would go on to star opposite one another in more than a dozen films throughout the late 1920s and into the talkie era of the early 1930s. Unlike many of his silent screen peers, Farrell had little difficulty with "voice troubles" and remained a publicly popular actor throughout the sound era. Farrell married former actress Virginia Valli on February 14, 1931, and the couple was married until Valli's death from a stroke on September 24, 1968. After retiring from his acting career, Farrell became a resident of the desert city of Palm Springs, California. He opened the popular Palm Springs Racquet Club in the city with fellow actor Ralph Bellamy. A major factor in the prosperity of Palm Springs in the 1950s, Farrell was elected mayor of the community in 1953, a position that he held for seven years. Farrell died from a heart attack in 1990. He was interred at the Welwood Murray Cemetery there.