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Auction History Result 5d004 HARRY LANGDON 8x10 fan photo 1927 great portrait of the comedian with facsimile signature! Date Sold 4/7/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" [19 x 25 cm] Fan Photo (Learn More) Harry Langdon was a slapstick comic actor from the 1920s to the 1940s. He ran away from home when he became a teen and he performed in vaudeville for over 20 years, and he went from town to town, and his best sketch was called "Johnny's New Car". He was signed to a movie contract in 1923 and Mack Sennett bought his contract and starred him in his first movie, "Picking Peaches". He then had the great fortune to be paired with young screenwriter Frank Capra, and together they had giant successes. But Langdon thought he could do it all and he fired Capra and had several bombs, and went bankrupt, and his career was never the same. However, he is one of the best remembered silent comedians after Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, and he continued in sound movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Some of his movies include: Tramp Tramp Tramp (which featured Joan Crawford in one of her very first major roles!), Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, and many more. Langdon passed away in 1944 at the age of 60. Important Added Info: Note that photos like this were sent to fans who wrote to their favorite stars from the 1910s to the early 1940s (some are created with a facsimile autograph of the star and all are printed on a quality paper stock). Studios stopped sending these great photos at some point in the very early 1930s, likely because of the Great Depression and their need to cut back on expenses! However, this particular "fan photo" comes with a really cool newspaper clipping that is from 1927, and which explains how this particular fan photo was used! The story (see our image) tells how Langdon was asking fans to send him ideas for his next picture (obviously, he was kind of desperate that he would do this). The article gives his address as "First National Studios, Burbank, Cal." We strongly suspect that this specific fan photo was sent to those fans who replied to that newspaper story giving him ideas for his next picture (it says "Thanks for your note, Harry Langdon"). On the back of the photo is "Fiory Della Verdoux", who we imagine was the photographer. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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