J. EDWARD BROMBERG AUTOGRAPH - NOTED CHARACTER ACTOR

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON A: signature of J. Louis Bromberg on lined 3x5 sheet of notepad paper. Joseph Edward Bromberg (December 25, 1903 – December 6, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s.Bromberg's most outstanding attribute was his facility with sensitive character roles; he could take a standard, undistinguished supporting part and make it unforgettably sympathetic. In Hollywood Cavalcade he's Don Ameche's friend who knows he will never get the girl; in Three Sons he's the lowly business associate who longs to be given a partnership; in Easy to Look At he's the once-great couturier now reduced to night watchman. In September 1950, the anti-communist magazine Red Channels accused Bromberg of being a member of the American Communist Party. Subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in June 1951, Bromberg refused to answer any questions in accordance with his Fifth Amendment rights. As a result, he was blacklisted from Hollywood. He suffered enormous stress from the ordeal; friends noted that he aged considerably in a very short time. In 1951 Bromberg sought work in England, but died within the year of a heart attack while working in the London play, The Biggest Thief in Town. He was just a few weeks short of his forty-eighth birthday.

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