A vintage page from an autograph album, signed with a fountain pen by Bonar Colleano, the American-born British actor. After years of playing caricatured Americans in British films, his first important role came with the popular wartime drama, The Way to the Stars (also known as Johnny in the Clouds, 1945) and later he starred in a Hollywood production, Stanley Kramer's Eight Iron Men (1952). His stage work included the role of Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Aldwych Theatre, London, with Vivien Leigh. Colleano died at the age of 34, when he crashed his sports car in Birkenhead shortly after exiting the Queensway tunnel. He was driving back from Liverpool's New Shakespeare Theatre, where he had been appearing in a stage production of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? His passenger, fellow actor and friend Michael Balfour, required 98 stitches but he eventually recovered.

On the reverse is an autograph by his wife, actress Susan Shaw, though there is some sellotape damage to the last letter of her surname. Shaw began her film career in 1946 when she was signed to a contract by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. Her early career showed promise, and Shaw's popularity was established in such films as the Huggetts Trilogy with Jack Warner. Married to Albert Lieven, they divorced in 1953, and in 1954 Shaw married the actor Bonar Colleano, with whom she had featured in the film Pool of London (1951). In 1955, their son Mark was born and in 1958 Colleano was killed in a traffic accident. Badly affected by Colleano's death, Shaw began to drink heavily, and unable to care for her son because of her increasing alcoholism, she gave him to her grandmother to raise. She later resumed her career, but was unable to sustain it and made her final acting appearance in 1963. She died of cirrhosis of the liver and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, North London.