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These Autographs were collected by my Father over his lifetime! Stowe Vintage will feature Autographs of Hollywood Stars, Political Autographs, President's Autographs, Sports Autographs, Military Autographs, Entertainment Autographs, Authors Autographs, Historical Autographs, and More! Comes with a COA. Contact us at 802-253-7000 or stovint08@gmail.com.
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JANE KACZMAREK AUTOGRAPH
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Jane Frances Kaczmarek was born December 21, 1955, in Greendale, Wisconsin. Jane Kaczmarek is an American actress. She is best known for playing the character of Lois on the television series Malcolm in the Middle. She lives in San Marino, California.
Kaczmarek, a Polish American, majored in theater at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She later studied at the Yale School of Drama for her graduate degree and was a part of its theater company. She has had several Broadway hits, including Lost In Yonkers and Raised In Captivity, where she won an LA Drama Critics’ Award. Her first television role was that of Margie Spoletto on For Lovers Only (1982). Her first major role was that of Linda Bauer on Equal Justice from 1990-1991.
Kaczmarek has also appeared in over forty television roles, the most notable including:
Connie Lehman in "The Paper Chase: The Second Year" and "The Paper Chase: The Third Year" (1983-1984)
Maureen Culter, girlfriend of Martin Crane (John Mahoney) on Frasier in "Police Story" (052 - 1996) and "Dad Loves Sherry, the Boys Just Whine" (082 - 1997)
Janet Rudman on Law & Order in "Censure" (414 - 1994)
"David's Mom", mother of David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) in Pleasantville (1998)
Helene Thompson in three episodes of Party of Five (1995-1999)
Lois, mother of Malcolm (Frankie Muniz), Reese (Justin Berfield), Francis (Christopher Masterson), Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan), and baby Jamie, and wife of Hal (Bryan Cranston) in 148 episodes of Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006
Judge Constance Harm in several episodes of The Simpsons from 2001 to present.
In 2000, Kaczmarek was cast to play Lois in the FOX mid-season replacement Malcolm in the Middle.
This role proved to be a wise career choice for Kaczmarek, as the show was a hit and made Lois a household name. TV Guide dubbed her a "true breakout; a female Homer Simpson", and critics hailed her for her comic talents. Later, Kaczmarek would credit the show for bringing out her comedic side, claiming, "[Before Malcolm] I couldn’t even get auditions for comedies. I played very unfunny people."
Kaczmarek was nominated seven times for an Emmy for her performance on the show, one for every year. She also earned three Golden Globe nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, was honored with a Television Critics Association Award in 2000 and 2001, plus an American Comedy Award and a Family Television Award in 2001.
Following the cancellation of Malcolm in the Middle, Kaczmarek went on to star in the short-lived series Help Me Help You co-starring Ted Danson.
Starting Fall 2008, she is starring in the hour long TNT series Raising the Bar as Judge Trudy Kessler. She also continues to voice Judge Constance Harm on several Simpsons episodes as mentioned above.
Kaczmarek married West Wing actor and fellow Wisconsin native Bradley Whitford on August 15, 1992. They live in Los Angeles with their three children: Frances (born 1997), George (born December 23, 1999), and Mary Louisa (born November 25, 2002). Both are very active with charity, and are seen attending many major award shows together. She is the founder of “Clothes Off Our Back” which auctions celebrity clothing for children’s charities.
Kaczmarek underwent a hip replacement in April 2004, due to chronic arthritis. She recovered quickly, and used an X-ray of her new hip for her Emmy campaign the following summer, advertising herself as "the only Emmy nominee with an artificial hip (except for Anthony LaPaglia).
In 2006, Kaczmarek and Malcolm in the Middle co-star Erik Per Sullivan contributed the afterword for the children’s book, Together, that shows the importance of domestic animals to impoverished people in the world, and was inspired by the mission of the nonprofit charitable organization, Heifer International.
Original Jane Kaczmarek Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card.
Regular Price - 54.95 / Sale Price - $ 39.95.
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MICHAEL LEARNED AUTOGRAPH
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Michael Learned was born on April 9, 1939. Learned is an American actress known for her role as Olivia Walton on The Waltons.
Learned was born in Washington, D.C., but lived on a farm with her five sisters for the first ten years of her life.
She was billed as "Miss Michael Learned" on The Waltons because she was relatively unknown at the time, and producers did not want confusion among viewers about her sex. She was nominated for six Emmy Awards and won three for her role of Olivia Walton. In 1979, her contract was not renewed; some sources indicate that she opted not to re-sign with the show. Her seminal character's abrupt disappearance was explained by Olivia's developing tuberculosis and entering a sanitarium. For continuity's sake, she did make occasional guest appearances until the show's cancellation. She was also nominated for four Golden Globe Awards.
She later starred as Nurse Mary Benjamin in the hospital drama Nurse, which ran on CBS during the 1981-82 season. Though the series was well received critically, it was not a ratings success and lasted only two seasons. She was, however, nominated for two Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Lead Actress" and won yet another Emmy for her role in 1982. She had a starring role in the unsuccessful 1989 sitcom Living Dolls and reprised her Waltons role for a number of TV movies and reunions in the 1990s.
She played "Judge Helen Turner" on the ABC soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live as part of the "baby switch" storyline on both shows.She guest-starred in Scrubs as Mrs. Wilk in episodes "My Missed Perception", "My Buddy's Booty", "My Cabbage", "My Half-Acre", and "My Five Stages" from Season 5.
In the late 60's, Ms. Learned and her husband (Peter Donat) appeared in various roles with the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) in San Francisco. She has appeared in many stage productions on Broadway, Off Broadway, and elsewhere, including in the 2006-2007 national touring production of On Golden Pond. In the fall of 2008 she starred in Innovation Theatre Works' production of Driving Miss Daisy, playing the title role of Daisy Werthen opposite Willis Burks II as Hoke and Dirk Blocker as Daisy's son Boolie.
She has been married three times. Her first husband was Canadian-American actor Peter Donat, from 1956-1972. She had three children by this marriage (which ended in divorce): Caleb, Christopher and Lucas. Her second marriage, to Glenn Chadwick, lasted from 1975-1977, again ending in divorce. In 1979, she married actor/screenwriter William Parker IV.
Filmography:
The Other Man (1963),
Wojeck (1968),
The Waltons (1972-1979) (as Miss Michael Learned),
Gunsmoke (1973),
Match Game 73 (1973),
Hurricane (1974),
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974),
Police Story (1974),
Widow (1976),
CBS: On the Air (1978),
Little Mo (1978),
The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1978),
The Television Annual: 1978/1979 (1979),
Nurse (1980),
Touched by Love (1980),
A Christmas Without Snow (1980),
Nurse (1981),
Politics of Poison (1982),
Night of 100 Stars (1982),
Mother's Day on Waltons Mountain (1982),
The Parade (1984),
St. Elsewhere (1984),
Power (1986),
All My Sons (1986),
A Deadly Business (1986),
Picnic (1986),
Mercy or Murder? (1987),
Hothouse (1988),
Roots: The Gift (1988),
Living Dolls (1989),
Murder, She Wrote (1989),
Who's the Boss? (1989),
Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (1990),
Wiseguy (1990),
Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991),
Murder in New Hampshire: The Pamela Wojas Smart Story (1991),
Keeping Secrets (1991),
Mattie's Waltz (1992),
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993),
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993),
The American Revolution (1994),
Reading Rainbow (1994),
The Secret World of Alex Mack (1995),
A Walton Wedding (1995),
A Walton Easter (1997),
Life During Wartime (1997),
A Father for Brittany (1998),
Profiler (1998),
Promised Land (1998),
For the Love of May (2000),
Pensacola: Wings of Gold (2000),
So Graham Norton (2000),
The Best of So Graham Norton (2000),
CBS at 75 (2003),
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003),
TV total (2004),
All My Children (2005),
Lethal Eviction (2005),
Loggerheads (2005),
One Life to Live (2005),
Scrubs (2006), and
The Killer (2007).
Original Michael Learned Autograph, signed on 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Regular Price - $ 77.00 / Sale Price - $ 39.95.
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CLORIS LEACHMAN AUTOGRAPH
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Cloris Leachman was born April 30, 1926. Cloris is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the 1971 film The Last Picture Show, though she is best known for playing the nosy neighbor Phyllis Lindstrom on the 1970s TV series The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and then later on the spinoff series, Phyllis. She also appeared in three Mel Brooks films, including Young Frankenstein.
Leachman was a contestant on Season 7 (2008) of Dancing With The Stars, paired with Corky Ballas. At the age of 82, she is the oldest contestant to dance on the series. She was voted off on October 28th. When asked who she thinks is the favorite to win this season, she replied, "Probably Brooke Burke, because she is always excellent."
Leachman will be the Grand Marshall for the 2009 Tournament of Roses Parade and Rose Bowl Game, taking place January 1, 2009 in Pasadena, California. She will be presiding over the 120th Parade, the theme being "Hats Off to Entertainment"; and the 95th Rose Bowl Game.
Leachman, the eldest of three sisters, was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Cloris (née Wallace) and Berkeley "Buck" Leachman, who worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company. She graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1944. She later majored in drama at Northwestern University and Illinois State University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta and a classmate of future comic actor Paul Lynde. Leachman began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America as Miss Chicago 1946. Before that she was very active at the Des Moines Playhouse starring in many productions.
After winning a scholarship in the beauty pageant, Leachman studied acting in New York City at the Actors Studio with Elia Kazan. She appeared in the Broadway production of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba.
She appeared in many live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense and Studio One. She was also one of the Raisonette Girls in the 1960s. She made her feature film debut in Robert Aldrich's film noir classic Kiss Me Deadly, released in 1955. Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trenchcoat. A year later she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in The Rack (1956). She appeared with Newman again, in a brief role as a prostitute in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
She continued to mainly work on television, with appearances including the classic It's a Good Life episode of The Twilight Zone, in which she played Billy Mumy's mother; Rawhide; and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Leachman appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy's adoptive mom, in the last half of season four (1957) of Lassie. She was replaced by June Lockhart in 1958. In 1959, she appeared in an episode of One Step Beyond entitled The Dark Room, where she portrayed an American photographer living in Paris.
Leachman has won numerous awards during her lengthy career. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in The Last Picture Show (1971), based on the bestselling book by Larry McMurtry. She played the high school gym teacher's wife, with whom Timothy Bottoms' character has an affair. Director Peter Bogdanovich had predicted to Leachman during production that she would win an Academy Award for her performance. The part was originally offered to Ellen Burstyn, who wanted another role in the film.
Leachman has also won a record-setting eight primetime and one daytime Emmy Awards and been nominated over 20 times for her work in television over the years, most notably as the character of neighbor/landlady/nosy friend Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The character was a fixture on the program for five years and was subsequently featured in a spinoff series, Phyllis (1975–1977), for which Leachman garnered a Golden Globe award.
In 1977, she guest starred on the Muppet Show, episode 24. In 1978, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. During the mid and late 1970s, she was featured in several Schoolhouse Rock episodes.
In 1986, Leachman returned to television, replacing Charlotte Rae's character Edna Garrett as the den mother on The Facts of Life. Leachman's role, as Edna's sister, Beverly Ann Stickle, could not save the long-running series, and it was canceled two years later.
She has voice acted in numerous animated films, including My Little Pony: The Movie as the evil witch mother from the Volcano of Gloom, The Iron Giant, and most notably as the voice of the cantankerous sky pirate Dola in Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 feature Castle in the Sky. Dubbed by Disney in 1998, Leachman's performance in this film received nearly unanimous praise.
Leachman played embittered, greedy, Slavic “Grandma Ida” on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, for which she won two Emmy Awards, both for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series (once in 2002, then again in 2006). She was nominated for playing that same character for six consecutive years.
Later television credits include the successful Lifetime Television miniseries Beach Girls with Rob Lowe and Julia Ormond. Leachman was nominated for a SAG Award for her role as the wine-soaked, former jazz singer and grandmother Evelyn in the Sony feature Spanglish opposite Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni. She had replaced an ailing Anne Bancroft in the role. The film reunited her with her Mary Tyler Moore Show writer-producer-director James L. Brooks. That same year she appeared with Sandler again, in the remake of The Longest Yard. She also appeared in Kurt Russell comedy Sky High as the school nurse with X-ray vision.
In 2006, Leachman's performance alongside Sir Ben Kingsley and Annette Bening in the HBO special Mrs. Harris earned her an Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress in a miniseries or TV movie as well as an SAG Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries.
On May 14, 2006, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Drake University.
Leachman has appeared in three Mel Brooks films. She played Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974), in which the mere mention of her character's name frightens all horses within earshot (merely a silly joke: Blücher is rumored to be German for "glue," although the actual word for glue is Klebstoff). She also appeared in High Anxiety (1977), as demented psychiatric nurse Charlotte Diesel, and as Madame Defarge in the segment of History of the World: Part I (1981) which parodied Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.
She auditioned for a chance to revive her role from Young Frankenstein in the 2007 Broadway production opposite Megan Mullally (replacing formerly cast Kristin Chenoweth) and Roger Bart. However, Andrea Martin was cast in the role. Mel Brooks was quoted as saying that Leachman, at 81, was too old for the role. "We don't want her to die on stage," he told columnist Army Archerd. However, due to Leachman's success on Dancing with the Stars Brooks has reportedly asked her to reprise her role as Frau Blucher in the Broadway production of Young Frankenstein after current star Beth Leavel leaves the company.
From 1953 to 1979, Leachman was married to Hollywood impresario George Englund. The marriage produced five children, most of whom are in show business. Her son George Englund, Jr., was once married to actress Sharon Stone. Her son Morgan played Dylan on Guiding Light throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Leachman's son, Bryan, died from a drug overdose in 1986. Some reports state that it was an overdose of ulcer medication, while others, such as in the Lifetime Television program Intimate Portrait: Cloris Leachman (in which Leachman participated), state that it was from cocaine.
Leachman's former mother-in-law was character actress Mabel Albertson, best known for playing Samantha's mother-in-law on the ABC sitcom Bewitched. Mabel's brother, actor Jack Albertson, won his Academy Award three years before Leachman did.
Cloris posed "au naturel" on the cover of "Alternative Medicine Digest" (issue 15, 1997) body-painted with images of fruit. This was a parody of the famous Demi Moore Vanity Fair magazine cover photo.
Leachman was a friend of Marlon Brando, whom she met while studying under Elia Kazan in the 1950s. She introduced him to her husband, who became close to Brando as well, directing him in The Ugly American and writing a memoir about their friendship called Marlon Brando: The Way It's Never Been Done Before (2005).
Cloris was a contestant on Season 7 of Dancing With The Stars, and was paired with Corky Ballas. She is the oldest person to ever compete on the show, yet still managed to maintain decent scores (having received as high as an 8 and no lower than a 5).
Original Cloris Leachman Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Written on Card: For Pal - All Love Cloris Leachman. Regular Price - $ 145.00 / Sale Price - $ 74.95.
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