Hello All ...Fellow Collectors and Enthusiasts:
I have been collecting autographs for nearly 40 years (hard to believe!) and about 15 years ago I decided to specialize in horror film autographs from 1910-1960 - a half century of personalities comprising the monsters, heavies, heroes and heroines from not only the Universal Studios pictures, but all the studios from Paramount and MGM, down to lowly Monogram, PRC and beyond. Can't leave out Edward D. Wood Jr.! And what fun it has been to look far beyond Karloff, Lugosi, the Chaneys, Lionel Atwill - even John Carradine, Clive, Zucco, J. Carroll Naish and Glenn Strange.
I have ventured into tougher waters - trying to find Dwight Frye, Frances Dade, Irving Pichel, John Wray, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Rafaela Ottiano, Louise Allbritton and many others - obscure, forgetten yet vital to collecting closure and completeness. That may never happen. This past year I have found Rondo Hatton, Michael Curtiz, Tod Browning and James Whale - not to mention Skelton Knaggs, Robert Frazer, John Harron and Cyril Delvanti - who? - You know, that grave robber in the first scene of Frankensetin Meets the Wolf Man grabbed by re-awakening Lon Chaney Jr. .....Grand fun looking, locating, swapping and meeting so many great collectors and fine folks. Need Harry Cording, Kay Harding, Olaf Hytten and Gerald Hamer ....add them to the recently obtained Charles Gerrard (Martin in 1931's Dracula) and the scarce Kathleen Burke of Island of Lost Souls and a collection is born ....ever-growing and a life unto itself.
Roger Hurlburt
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I have now. : )
Like R. Hurlburt, I hope Knaggs was a nice guy. I like to think he was. Unfortunate about the drinking, though.
Hello Roger,
You willing to sell that Michael Curtiz?
Yes not sure where Roger went hope he will come back and post some of his collection it is an amazing one. Almost no one left from the old Universal Horror movies. Donnie Dunagan who played Peter von Frankenstein in the 1939 Son of Frankenstein I think is the last of the major ones. Janet Gallow and William Smith were both in Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) but Karloff was not in that. Ricou Browning is now the last of the Universal Monsters he did the underwater scenes for The Creature From the Black Lagoon and the sequels.
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