Signed Photograph
Signed black and white portrait photo of American actor Walter Abel. 5" x 7", faint stain in the matting upper left and small dot/water mark middle right. Otherwise in very good condition.
Walter Abel was an American stage, film, and radio actor whose career spanned nearly seven decades. Abel made his film debut in 1918 with a small part in Out of a Clear Sky, and his Broadway debut in Forbidden in 1919. In 1924, he appeared in two Eugene O'Neill plays simultaneously: Bound East for Cardiff at the Provincetown Playhouse and Desire Under the Elms at the Greenwich Village Theater. His many theatre credits include As You Like It (1923), William Congreve's Love for Love (1925), Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (1929%u20131930), Mourning Becomes Electra (1929), Kaufman and Hart's Merrily We Roll Along (1934), and Trelawny of the 'Wells'. He also appeared in Channing Pollock's play The Enemy (1926) with Fay Bainter, adapted to film as The Enemy (1927) with Lillian Gish and Ralph Forbes. Abel made his stage debut in London in the 1929 Coquette. His first major film role was as D'Artagnan in RKO Pictures' 1935 The Three Musketeers.[3] He played hyperactive agent Danny Reed in the 1942 musical comedy Holiday Inn, with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Abel went on to play in more than sixty films, and was a vice president of the Screen Actors' Guild. Abel also appeared as a concert narrator or reader with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait in 1951, and in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood in 1953. Binding: Unbound
Language: English
Price: $150.00
Item #338311