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CLARA BLOODGOOD
(1870-1907)
A young, socially prominent New Yorker, Clara Bloodgood determined to try her luck
on stage and surprised many with her fine acting and purposeful
professionalism. Under the aegis of Charles Frohman, she made her debut in The Conquerors (1898), then appeared for him in Catherine (1898), Phroso (1898), and Miss Hobbs (1899). Bloodgood won such good notices as the caustic‐tongued Miss Godesby in The Climbers (1901) that author Clyde Fitch wrote the tormented Jinny Austin in The Girl with the Green Eyes (1902) specifically for her. Another Fitch play for her, The Coronet of the Duchess
(1904), was a quick failure, but her reputation was reassured when she starred as Violet Robinson in the first American production of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman (1905).
In 1907 she appeared as Becky Warder, the pathological liar, in Fitch's The Truth,
which opened to unkind notices in New York but was well received on the
road. While playing in Baltimore, on December 5, 1907, Clara Bloodgood committed suicide in her
hotel room. Fitch thereafter strenuously denied a widely circulated
rumor that her suicide had been prompted by his dedicating the
published text of The Truth to Marie Tempest who played it in London.
Exceedingly Rare
Cabinet Card Photograph Signed:
"Clara Bloodgood
98"
the year she made her Broadway debut in The Conquerors
5-1/4" x 8-1/2"
part of upper left corner missing
minor creases - not on image
light tanning on verso
photo by Davis & Sanford
246 Fifth Avenue, New York
on verso, Clara Bloodgood has penned:
"Our whispered pass-word
holds assuagement:
The solemn “Yea, I
understand!”
(from a poem by Anne Reeve Aldrich)
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From Norway, December 28, 2007 Item arrived as described, well packaged+++from Australia, December 20, 2007Item like described . Very fast sending+++++++++++++from Belgium, December 15, 2007Expert in what he is selling, great Item, smooth transaction!from Indonesia, December 12, 2007ITEM RECEIVED TIMEOUSLY AND IN GOOD CONDITIONfrom South Africa, December 12, 2007
ORIGINAL!
ONE OF A KIND!
NOT A FACSIMILE OR REPRINT!
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personally signed in ink by
Herman Darvick
(not a PSADNA Letter of Authenticity)
Herman Darvick has been issuing COAs since 1968.
A forensic expert, he was an expert witness on autograph authenticity and value for the United States of America in the case of the Estate of Richard Nixon v. United States (1998-2000). Items he has authenticated and sold include Jack Ruby's gun, Judy Garland's last passport, the first authentic Shoeless Joe Jackson autograph, and Oscars awarded to John Lennon and Harold Russell.
He has been interviewed by, among others, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King, Bill O'Reilly, Phil Donohue, and Joe Franklin, as well as by the Associated Press, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Yomiuri Shimbun, Der Spiegel, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, CNBC, and other media worldwide.
Herman Darvick is the author of the "Autograph" entry in World Book encyclopedia (volume 1) and the author of Collecting Autographs, published by Messner Books/Simon & Schuster in 1981.
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