Cat. #001776111: AUDIE MURPHY

Highly rare vintage 8x10-inch black and white 1954 publicity portrait-- almost all "autographed" material from him one encounters is secretarial-- boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the period of the photograph. In good condition for its age. During the course of an extraordinary life, Murphy shot up from a poor Texas sharecropper's son to America's most decorated World War II hero, and a popular Western and action movie star. While stationed in Europe with his infantry unit, he was credited with killing 240 Nazis, was promoted to lieutenant and earned at least 24 medals, including the Purple Heart and the coveted Congressional Medal of Honor. Discovered by actor friend James Cagney, Murphy was signed to a Hollywood contract and earned critical and popular acclaim playing heroic types quite like himself in westerns and war flicks like Beyond Glory (1948), Bad Boy (1949), The Kid from Texas (1950), The Red Badge of Courage (1951), The Cimarron Kid (1952), The Duel at S