Berlin, Irving. (1888-1989). Signed Photograph. A vintage 4 X 6 inch photograph of Berlin in "This Is the Army," where he recreated a role he had played in his World War I hit "Yip! Yip! Yaphank." The great American songwriter is shown seated in a three quarter length pose wearing a uniform and holding his hat at his side. Signed in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area of the background.
"The biggest and best-known morale-boosting show of World War II - Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, began life as a Broadway musical designed to raise money for the military. It then toured the nation, and later the world, and was eventually made into a movie, starring the handsome young Lt. Ronald Reagan." (Irving Berlin: This Is the Army. Laurence Bergreen, National Archives Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2).
"The biggest and best-known morale-boosting show of World War II - Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, began life as a Broadway musical designed to raise money for the military. It then toured the nation, and later the world, and was eventually made into a movie, starring the handsome young Lt. Ronald Reagan." (Irving Berlin: This Is the Army. Laurence Bergreen, National Archives Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2).
Berlin, Irving. (1888-1989). Signed Photograph. A vintage 4 X 6 inch photograph of Berlin in "This Is the Army," where he recreated a role he had played in his World War I hit "Yip! Yip! Yaphank." The great American songwriter is shown seated in a three quarter length pose wearing a uniform and holding his hat at his side. Signed in dark fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area of the background.
"The biggest and best-known morale-boosting show of World War II - Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, began life as a Broadway musical designed to raise money for the military. It then toured the nation, and later the world, and was eventually made into a movie, starring the handsome young Lt. Ronald Reagan." (Irving Berlin: This Is the Army. Laurence Bergreen, National Archives Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2).
"The biggest and best-known morale-boosting show of World War II - Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, began life as a Broadway musical designed to raise money for the military. It then toured the nation, and later the world, and was eventually made into a movie, starring the handsome young Lt. Ronald Reagan." (Irving Berlin: This Is the Army. Laurence Bergreen, National Archives Summer 1996, Vol. 28, No. 2).