Risdon, Elisabeth - 1916 1 Pg ALS, Great WWI Content w/ 2 Vintage Still Photos
Dec. 5th, 1916, handwritten ALS on a thin 8x10 one page sheet. Signed by English stage and film actress Elizabeth Risdon. During this time period in 1916, Risdon had just finish filming Alfred Hitchcock's now lost silent film, "The Manxman".
Very nice content thanking a Miss Swann for her letter and asking her for a donation of three stamps for sponsoring the “Y.M.C.A. Huts”. The huts are referring to a WWI program to supply soldiers with a bit of an opportunity to leave behind the hardships and brutalities of war. These huts were in training camps, garrison, and transit towns, at railways stations and wherever British troops were serving abroad.
This signed letter comes with two vintage original 8x10 photos. The first is from the 1936 film,” Theodora Goes Wild”. It is very fine with one small clip on the right-side white border. Paper descriptive blurb attached to verso. The second photo is a 1941 promotional shot. It too, is very fine.
Elisabeth Risdon (born Daisy Cartwright Risdon; 26 April 1887 – 20 December 1958) was an English film actress. She appeared in more than 140 films from 1913 to 1952. A beauty in her youth, she usually played in society parts. In later years in films she switched to playing character parts.