Arthur

Three clearly signed pages & cards by all three main characters ; Dudley Moore (Arthur Bach) / Liza Minelli (Linda Morolla) and John Gielgud (Hobson).

1) DUDLEY MOORE d2002. English actor, comedian, composer and musician. He first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in the ground-breaking comedy revue Beyond The Fringe during the early 1960s and then became famous as half of the highly popular television double-act Pete & Dud and Derek & Clive with Peter Cook. His fame as a comedic film actor was later heightened in the 70s and 80s by success in hit Hollywood movies 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur. He received an Oscar nomination for the latter role. He was frequently referred to in the media as "Cuddly Dudley" or "The Sex Thimble", a reference to his short stature and reputation as a "ladies' man". In later life he suffered with poor health and died of pneumonia aged 66 in 2002.

2) LIZA MINELLI. American actress & singer and the daughter of Wizard Of Oz legend Judy Garland. A multi-award winner including ; three Tonys, two Golden Globes, one Emmy and an Oscar winner (for the classic 1972 film Cabaret). Other best known roles include "Arthur" with Dudley Moore. She has been married four times with her signature song being "New York New York".

3) SIR JOHN GIELGUD d2000. English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. Along with Ralph Richardson & Laurence Olivier, one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century. During the 1930s, he was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director and set up his own company at the Queens Theatre London. He is regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era and was also known for high comedy roles (such as John Worthing) in The Importance of Being Earnest. In the 1950s Gielgud feared that his career was threatened when he was convicted and fined for a homosexual offence, but his colleagues and the public supported him loyally. When avant-garde plays began to supersede traditional West End productions in the later 1950s, he found no new suitable stage roles and for several years he was best known in the theatre for his one-man Shakespeare show "The Ages of Man". During the first half of his career he did not take the cinema seriously. He made his first film in 1924 and had successes with The Good Companions (1933) and Julius Caesar (1953), but he did not begin a regular film career until his sixties. Between Becket (1964) (for which he received an Oscar nomination) and Elizabeth (1998), he appeared in more than sixty films. As the acid-tongued Hobson in Arthur (1981), he won an Academy Award for best supporting actor. He has the rare distinction of winning an Oscar / an Emmy / a Grammy and a Tony. He was knighted in 1953 and the Gielgud Theatre is named after him. He died peacefully at home aged 96 in 2000. 

Double mounted for fine display with photographs.