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William Boyd Hopalong Cassidy Signed PhotoThis item is a wonderful, original 4x6 photo signed by hopalong cassidy ( william boyd), signed in vintage blue ink in overall in very good condition. 100% original, not a facsimile or preprint. I have decided to sell my extensive collection of musical and entertainment autographs mostly stars that claimed their fame from the 1920s through the 1960s many hard to find. Please check my listings over the next several months for new daily listings. Born william lawrence boyd in hendrysburg, ohio, located 26 miles east of cambridge, ohio, he was raised in tulsa, oklahoma. In 1918 he went to hollywood where he became famous as a leading man in siletn film romances with a yearly salary of $100,000. By the end of the 1920s, boyd's career had begun to deteriorate, and he was without a contract adn going broke. Then boyd's picture was mistakenly run in a newspaper story about the arrest of another actor with a similar name (william stage boyd) on gambling and liquor charges, which further hurt his career. In 1935, he was offered the lead role in the movie hopalong cassidy. He changed the original pulp-fiction character, written by clarence e. Mulford, from a whisky guzzling wrangler to a cowboy hero who did not smoke, drink, or swear and he always let the bad guy start the fight. Boyd would be indelibly associated with the hopalong cassidy character, and he gained lasting fame in the western film genre because of it. Boyd purchased the rights to the character of hopalong, as well as the rights to the 66 hopalong cassidy movies.In the early 1950s, he released the movies to television, where they became extremely popular. Hopalong cassidy is, in fact, credited with helping reinvigorate the time-worn western genre. Along wiht other cowboy figures, such as roy rogers and gene autry, boyd licensed merchandise, including such products as hopalong cassidy watches, cups and dishes, comic books and cowboy outfits. Boyd used his fame and his fortune to meet with children around the world, and underscore for them the fine qualities of the hopalong csasidy figure he portrayed. As a private individual and an actor, he was a hero to a generation of american children. The hopalong cassidy films remain available for broadcast and are on dvd ni restored form. Boyd appeared as hopalong cassidy on the cover of numerous national magazines, such as teh august 29, 1950 issue of look 1, and the november 27, 1950 issue of time. Oddly, both clark gable and robert mitchum experienced their first big breaks in movies playing bearded villains in westerns starring boyd. William boyd died in 1972 in laguna beach, california and was buried in the forest lawn memorial park cemetery in glendale, california. Please view hte other historical and civil war related documents i'll be listing this week.
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I allow international bidders and will ship internationally, usually an $8 fee. Buyer pays shipping(usually $4 within the us and $8 for international), payment must be received within 14 days. |
