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Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz) was a Swiss actor from the 1910s to the 1940s (he was quite popular during the silent era, especially in German movies with Murnau and U.S. movies with Von Sternberg, but the coming of sound hurt his American career due to his thick accent). Some of his movies include: Faust, The Last Command (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Last Laugh, Tartuffe, Way Of All Flesh (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and of course, The Blue Angel. Jannings was an actor who participated in the Nazi propaganda films during World War II (WWII), tarnishing what had been an illustrious career. He passed away in 1950 at the age of 65.

Important Added Info: Note that this German Ross Postcard has been personally autographed (signed) by Emil Jannings! Our consignor is a dealer who purchased this signed item (together with others we are currently auctioning) from the estate of a South American collector who collected signed items and many other collectibles over several decades, and that collector had many extremely valuable items, both signed and unsigned. Our consignor does not have a certificate of authenticity, but because they came from the estate of this collector, we think it is extremely likely the signature is authentic.

Also note that in the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, it became a common practice to pass out 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" "Ross postcards" to the people who attended a movie. These were postcards that people could send through the mail (each had a picture of one of the movie's stars on it, and standard postcard markings on the other side). But these were also sent to theaters where the stars would make personal appearances, and members of the audience would get the stars to autograph them if they could, but of course, the cards themselves did not come autographed! Sometimes the theaters would use a special "Das Programm Von Heute" that had a blank area on the cover, where they would cut four slits in the upper left and have the "Ross postcards" inserted into that area, so that the audience members would get the program and the card together! We imagine that theaters hoped that audience members would mail the postcards after they saw the movie to friends, telling them how much they enjoyed it, thus creating advertising for the movie. These are often called "Ross autograph cards" by collectors, because moviegoers sometimes obtained autographs on them. Ross postcards are quite collectible, signed or unsigned, but of course, they are worth far more signed. They are often quite rare, because most German paper of all kinds from before World War II was destroyed during the war, due to the massive paper shortages there at that time.

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 (although we prefer they do any "authenticating" while the auction is "live" and before they place a bid) 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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