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Greer Garson Vintage 1940 Autographed Silver Gelatin Photograph inscribed to dancer Yuri Zoritch: "For Yuri - with my sincere fond wishes and regard - Greer Garson". This is the original mint quality photograph given to Zoritch in 1940 when he visited the set for "When Ladies Meet". Garson is in costume. Zoritch was rehearsing in an adjacent studio. The photograph is in excellent condition with no tears or creases and has a high quality lightly textured mat finish on heavy weight photo paper. This is not a reprint. It is an original high quality vintage photograph. Greer Garson (1904 –1996) was a British-American actress and singer who became a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during the Second World War for her portrayal of strong women on the homefront. She is listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top-10 box office draws from 1942 to 1946. Garson is the fourth most-nominated woman for the Best Actress Oscar. Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, including a record-tying with Bette Davis for five consecutive nominations (1941–1945), in the actress category, winning for her performance in the title role of the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver. George Zoritch (born Yuri Zoritch 1917– 2009), was a Russian-born American ballet dancer who was the star dancer of Ballet Russe throughout Europe, South America and the United States in the 1930s. In the early 1940s he came to Hollywood and over the next decade was featured in 8 major Hollywood films working alongside Alexis Smith, Cary Grant, Eleanor Parker, Errol Flynn, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Victor Mature, Hedy Lamarr and others. He returned to ballet in the 1950s to revive the legendary roles of Nijinski, specifically “Spectre de la Rose” and “Afternoon of a Faun” with Le Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Zoritch was internationally known as one of the most glamorous figures and striking personalities in mid-twentieth-century ballet. He was a featured and iconic model for the great photographers Carl van Vechten, George Platt Lynes, and Maurice Seymour.