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Gloria Dickson was an actress from the 1930s and 1940s. She was born "Thais Alalia Dickerson" in 1917, and started acting in high school. At 19, she was signed to a Warner Bros. contract. In her very first movie, she was given the female lead in a major Warner Bros. movie, "They Won't Forget" (which is also remembered as being Lana Turner's first movie, although her character dies early on). For this great good fortune, Gloria Dickson was nicknamed "The Luckiest Girl in Hollywood", which would prove to be extremely ironic, because while she got some good roles over the coming year, she then made the disastrous mistake of marrying a makeup artist who convinced her to get a nose job so she would be "more glamorous", but it had just the opposite effect, and she was reduced to taking parts in B-movies. She divorced her husband and married again, but that marriage also was brief. By 1945, she was an alcoholic and unemployed and overweight. She married a former boxer, and she was taking a nap in their house when it caught on fire, and she was trapped in the house and died, and she was only 27 years old. This is yet another of many examples of people for whom Hollywood fame and fortune was very fleeting, and resulted in an early tragic death.

Important Added Info: Note that this item has been personally autographed (signed) by Gloria Dickson!

Note that this item was consigned to us by a man who was a major movie memorabilia dealer from the 1980s on. During that time, he would regularly purchase collections of movie memorabilia from both dealers and collectors, and in some of those collections he purchased autographed items, and over the years he did not re-sell any of the autographed items. Now he has gathered up together all of his autographed items and consigned them to us. So all of the items from this consignor we are auctioning were purchased by this dealer from longtime dealers and collectors, and we feel it is quite likely that the autograph on this item is authentic!

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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