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Russ Tamblyn was born in Los Angeles in 1934, and by age ten he was appearing in plays and on radio. He got a part as an extra in The Boy with Green Hair in 1948 and the following year was given the lead role in The Kid from Cleveland, where he was billed as "Rusty Tamblyn". He was signed by MGM, and they cast him in any movie that had a part for a teenage male. He had been a gymnast at North Hollywood High School, and in 1954 MGM cast him as the youngest brother Gideon Pontipee in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and he got to do some acrobatic dancing. Had he been a few years older, he likely would have gone on to star in MGM musicals, but this was the time when big musicals were on the downward slope, and he returned to mostly dramatic roles, including playing Norman Page in Peyton Place (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and the title character in George Pal's tom thumb (intentionally in lower-case!). His best role ever came in 1961 when he got to play Riff in West Side Story. Even though he was 26, he was pretty believable as a teenager, although he was somewhat less believable as a dancing gang leader! Tamblyn's career peaked with West Side Story, although he has continued appearing in movies and TV over the years including Django Unchained in 2012. He is the father of Amber Tamblyn, who starred in TV's "Joan of Arcadia" from 2003 to 2005. As of 2021, he is still alive at the age of 86!

Important Added Info: Note that this REPRODUCTION still has been personally autographed (signed) by Russ Tamblyn!

Note that this autographed item is part of a remarkable collection. In each of our last several all-signed auctions, we auctioned hundreds of items from this collection and now we are auctioning many more signed photos and miscellaneous other signed items (plus many signed index cards that have a different note on those)!
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a teacher who taught a film class, and he also part-time ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s, he wrote to famous celebrities, and enclosed an 8x10 still or repro (or sometimes another item) 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 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 item (and the vast majority of the other photos and other items we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the late 1970s or 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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