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Lloyd Bridges was born in San Leandro, California in 1913, and few well-known Hollywood stars have taken so long to make it to the top level of stardom! Bridges grew up in California and went to college there, but moved to New York after getting married. He had appeared in two movies uncredited in 1936 at the age of 23, but he was in New York working on the Broadway stage until 1941, when he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures at the age of 28, and moved back to California. Columbia put him in minor or uncredited roles in dozens of movies over the next four years. By 1945, after some 60 movies, he was still only fifth billed in A Place in the Sun, and that was one of his best roles to that time! It seemed likely his better roles would only come in much lesser movies, and that whenever he appeared in a major movie, he would have a pretty minor role, like as the cowardly deputy Harvey Pell, in High Noon. In the early 1950s, Bridges was caught up in the Hollywood blacklist (for having once been a member of a group with "Communist ties") and that caused Bridges to start doing more and more TV work, and fewer movies. But ultimately, that worked out quite well for him, for in 1958 he finally achieved the stardom that had eluded him for over 20 years in movies, when he starred in TV's 'Sea Hunt', at the age of 45. After Sea Hunt, Bridges mostly just did TV for quite a few years (and supposedly he was Gene Roddenberry's first choice for Captain Kirk!), but in 1980 he returned to movies in a big way when he showed a previously unknown ability to play comedy in "Airplane" and he reprised that role in the sequel and was in the "Hot Shots" movies. Bridges remained married to that same woman he married in 1938, Dorothy Dean Bridges, all his life, and of course they are the parents of Jeff and Beau Bridges, both of whom have had almost as unconventional Hollywood careers as their father! In 1997, the year before he died, Bridges made two memorable appearances on the Seinfeld TV show, as 'Izzy Mandelbaum'. He passed away in 1998 at the age of 85.

Important Added Info: Note that this still has been personally autographed (signed) by Lloyd Bridges!

Note that this autographed 8x10 is part of a remarkable new collection we have been consigned, and we are auctioning nearly 500 items from this collection in this set of auctions (we will have more from this collection in our next few sets of autograph auctions).
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a high school teacher who taught a film class, and one day a week (and all through the summer) he ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits and one-sheets from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s, but increasingly greatly in the early 1980s, he hit on the idea of writing to famous celebrities, and enclosing an 8x10 from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star.
     He often was able to locate an 8x10 still from his collection that was from a really good movie from that star, or one that had a really good image of that star. In a relatively small number of cases, he did not have a still in his collection to send, so he bought a reproduction from a photo shop, and sent that instead, which is why some of the items that have this notation on them are reproductions.
     He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them.
     In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the mid-1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor!
     He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves.

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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