Subject:  Andy Griffith, Elia Kazan, Patricia Neal, and More

Size:  Approximately 4.5x6

Description:  Autograph book with signatures of the stars. character actors, bit players, and crew members of the 1957 classic A Face in the Crowd, acquired by a resident of Piggott, Arkansas, one of the film's shooting locations.  Signed by:

Elia Kazan (director)

Andy Griffith (in his screen debut)

Budd Schulberg (writer)

Patricia Neal

Big Jeff Bess 

Sandy Wirth

Tom Glazer (composer; Glazer also wrote the popular children's song "On Top of Spaghetti")

Howard Smith (renowned character actor who appeared in film noir classics and two Twilight Zone episodes)

Rod Brasfield

A stunningly rare memento of this great film.  The rest of the book contains inscriptions and signatures of several young school classmates of the original owner, which are nice items of small-town Americana in their own right.

Condition:  Fine Plus with insignificant age-related wear; the page portion is partially detached from the cover but is still intact