WILLIAM POWELL—SIGNED PHOTO+LETTER (1927—THIN MAN•GODFREY•HARLOW•LOMBARD

Description: WILLIAM POWELLSigned Photo + Letter (1927)William Powell (July 29, 1892 – March 5, 1984) was an actor, known primarily for his film career. Under contract with Paramount, Warner Bros. and MGM, he was notably paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Powell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times: for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey — with ex-wife Carole Lombard (1936), and Life with Father (1947). After high school, Pittsburgh-borm Powell enrolled at the University of Kansas to study law, but after a week he relocated to New York City, where he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts . In 1912, Powell left the AADA, and began working in vaudeville and stock companies. He also appeared on Broadway. Powell began his Hollywood career in 1922, in a production of Sherlock Holmes with John Barrymore. He performed as Francis I in When Knighthood Was in Flower with Marion Davies. Powell remained under contract to Paramount throughout the 1920s, before signing with Warner Bros. Powell portrayed a vengeful film director in the silent movie The Last Command (1928). His first starring role was Philo Vance in The Canary Murder Case (1929). He played Vance at Paramount Pictures four times. His strong stage-developed voice became a powerful asset when talking pictures were introduced. Powell appeared as Nick Charles in six Thin Man films, beginning with The Thin Man in 1934, based upon Dashiell Hammett's novel. This movie — besides providing Powell a decade of work — garnered him his first Academy Award nomination, in 1935. Powell starred in The Great Ziegfeld, (1936), opposite his The Thin Man co-star, Myrna Loy, who played Ziegfeld's wife, Billie Burke. In 1937, Powell received his second Academy Award nomination for the comedy My Man Godfrey. In 1935, he starred with Jean Harlow in Reckless. In 1936, Harlow and Powell appeared in Libeled Lady, and they became romantically involved off-set. He gave her a handsome ring, but did not ask her to marry him, so she referred to it as her "unengagement ring". Powell had been unhappy with the failure of his previous marriage to popular actor Carole Lombard, and this apparently kept him from entering a similar arrangement with Harlow, who was a sex symbol to the film-going public during that time. They kept company but did not live together. Harlow fell ill from undiagnosed kidney failure while working on a film with Clark Gable, and died before the film was completed, from uremia, at age 26 in June 1937. Powell received his third Academy Award nomination in 1947 for his role as Clarence Day Sr. in Life with Father. His last film was playing the character Doc in John Ford’s Mister Roberts(1955). Personal life Powell married Eileen Wilson, who was born Julia Mary Tierney. The couple had a son, William David Powell. They divorced in 1930. Powell's son became a television writer and producer before a period of ill health and depression led to his suicide in 1968. On June 26, 1931, Powell married actress Carole Lombard. They divorced in 1933, but starred in My Man Godfrey three years later. Powell was devastated by her death in an airplane crash in 1942. He was romantically involved with Jean Harlow, his co-star in Reckless (1935), until her unexpected death from illness in 1937. On January 6, 1940, three weeks after they met, Powell married his third wife, actress Diana Lewis, who cancelled her film career to be his full-time wife. They remained married until his death in 1984. A Republican, Powell supported Thomas Dewey in the 1944 United States presidential election and the 1948 United States presidential election.Cancer In March 1938, Powell was diagnosed with rectal cancer. He underwent surgery and experimental radium treatment, which put the disease in full remission within two years. Given his own health and sorrow over Jean Harlow's death, Powell did not undertake any film roles for more than a year during this period.Powell died in Palm Springs, California, on March 5, 1984, at the age of 91 from pneumonia. He is buried at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California, near his third wife, Diana Lewis, and his only child, William David Powell. FILM1922 Sherlock Holmes Foreman Wells When Knighthood Was in Flower Francis I Outcast DeValle 1923 The Bright Shawl Gaspar De Vaca Under the Red Robe Duke of Orleans 1924 Dangerous Money Prince Arnolfo da Pescia Romola Tito Melema 1925 Too Many Kisses Julio with Harpo MarxFaint Perfume Barnaby Powers My Lady's Lips Scott SeddonThe Beautiful City Nick Di Silva The New Commandment1926 White Mice Roddy Forrester Sea Horses Lorenzo Salvia Desert Gold Snake Landree The Runaway Jack Harrison Aloma of the South Seas Van Templeton Beau Geste Boldini with Ronald ColmanThe Great Gatsby George Wilson Tin Gods Tony Santelli 1927 New York Trent Regan Love's Greatest Mistake Don Kendall Special Delivery Harold Jones with Eddie CantorSenorita Manuel Oliveros Time to Love Prince Alado Paid to Love Prince Eric Nevada Clan Dillon She's a Sheik Kada 1928 The Last Command Lev Andreyev for Von SternbergBeau Sabreur Becque Feel My Pulse Her Nemesis Partners in Crime Smith The Drag Net Dapper Frank Trent The Vanishing Pioneer John Murdock Forgotten Faces Froggy Interference Philip Voaze Powell's sound debut1929 The Canary Murder Case Philo Vance with Louise BrooksThe Four Feathers Capt. William Trench The Greene Murder Case Philo Vance Charming Sinners Karl Kraley Pointed Heels Robert Courtland 1930 Behind the Make-Up Gardoni Street of Chance John D. Marsden / 'Natural' Davis The Benson Murder Case Philo Vance Paramount on Parade Philo Vance Shadow of the Law John Nelson For the Defense William Foster 1931 Man of the World Michael Trevor Ladies' Man Jamie Darricott The Road to Singapore Hugh Dawltry 1932 High Pressure Gar Evans Jewel Robbery The Robber One Way Passage Dan Hardesty Lawyer Man Anton Adam 1933 Private Detective 62 Free Double Harness John Fletcher The Kennel Murder Case Philo Vance with Mary Astor 1934 Fashions of 1934 Sherwood Nash Manhattan Melodrama Jim Wade with LoyThe Thin Man Nick Charles with LoyThe Key Capt. Bill Tennant Evelyn Prentice John Prentice 1935 Star of Midnight 'Dal' Dalzell with Ginger RogersReckless Ned Riley with HarlowEscapade Fritz with Rainer Rendezvous Lieutenant Gordon with Roz RussellThe Casino Murder Case "A new man" uncredited cameo1936 The Great Ziegfeld Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. with LoyThe Ex-Mrs. Bradford Dr. Bradford with Jean ArthurMy Man Godfrey Godfrey Parke with LombardLibeled Lady Bill Chandler with Harlow LoyAfter the Thin Man Nick Charles with Loy1937 The Last of Mrs. Cheney Charles with CrawfordThe Emperor's Candlesticks Baron Wolensky with RainerDouble Wedding Charles Lodge with Loy1938 The Baroness and the Butler Johann Porok with Annabella1939 Another Thin Man Nick Charles with Loy1940 I Love You Again Larry a.k.a. Carey with Loy1941 Love Crazy Steve Ireland with LoyShadow of the Thin Man Nick Charles with Loy1942 Crossroads David Talbot, a.k.a. Jean Pelletier 1943 The Youngest Profession Himself 1944 The Heavenly Body William S. Whitley with Lamarr1945 The Thin Man Goes Home Nick Charles with LoyZiegfeld Follies Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. with Loy1946 The Hoodlum Saint ‘Terry' O'Neill The Great Morgan Himself Voice1947 Life with Father Clarence Day Song of the Thin Man Nick Charles with LoyThe Senator Was Indiscreet Senator Ashton Loy cameo1948 Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid Peabody with Ann Blyth1949 Take One False Step Professor Andrew Gentling Dancing in the Dark Emery Slade 1951 It's a Big Country Professor 1952 The Treasure of Lost Canyon Homer 'Doc' Brown 1953 The Girl Who Had Everything Steve Latimer with Liz Taylor How to Marry a Millionaire J.D. Hanley with Marilyn Monroe 1955 Mister Roberts Doc (final film)Short subjectsScreen Snapshots (1932)Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933)Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party (1946) Insured media mailshipping in a boxwithin two businessdays of payment

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