Jack Palance Autograph

Description

Autograph Entertainer, Jack Palance (No COA. Palance signed it and gave it to me.)
My father, George Ellison (same name), was the General Manager for a number of Chicago hotels in the 1960's and 1970's. One of the hotels he was the General Manager of was Chicago's Pick Congress Hotel.
My father often met with celebrities who stayed at his hotel and one of the celebrities he met was movie star,
Jack Palance
.
One day in 1966 my father invited me to meet with Jack Palance at the Pick-Congress Hotel. We had Irish Coffee (the first one I ever had given that I was around 12.) Palance was very gracious and asked questions about my life and schooling and then signed his head shot and gave it to me.
One of the photos attached verifies that my father was a Manager of the Pick-Congress Hotel in Chicago. You'll see a brochure indicating that he's the named sponsor of a charity dinner at the
Pick-Congress Hotel f
or the City of Hope and the following photo shows that he employed by the
Pick-Congress Hotel.
The final attached photo shows a group of men which includes the Governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, and my father, George Ellison, two people to Kerner's left.
Much later Palance starred in
City Slickers.
Jack Palance
born
Volodymyr Palahniuk
(
Ukrainian
:
Володимир Палагню́к
); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor.
Known for playing tough guys and villains, he was nominated for three
Academy Awards
, all for
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
, receiving nominations for his roles in
Sudden Fear
(1952) and
Shane
(1953), and winning the Oscar almost 40 years later for his role in
City Slickers
(1991).
Buyer agrees that local pick up means at seller's location.