Description: Up for auction an EARLY! "Outrage" Mala Powers Hand Signed 5X7 B&W Photo. ES-388A Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20, 1931 – June 11, 2007) was an American film actress. Powers was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940, her family moved to Los Angeles. Her father was an executive with United Press. Her mother was a minister. Powers later told a reporter, "I've worked in show business since I've been seven." In the summer of her relocation, Powers attended the Max Reinhardt Junior Workshop, where she enjoyed her first role in a play before a live audience. She continued with her drama lessons, and a year later she auditioned and won a part in the 1942 Little Tough Guys film Tough as They Come. Powers' first movie roles were in Outrage and Edge of Doom in 1950. That same year, Stanley Kramer signed Powers to star opposite Jose Ferrer in what may be her most-remembered role, as Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her part in this movie. While on a USO entertainment tour in Korea in 1951, she contracted a blood disease and nearly died. She was treated with chloromycetin, but a severe allergic reaction resulted in the loss of much of her bone marrow. Powers barely survived, and her recovery took nearly nine months. She began working again in 1952, including the lead in Rose of Cimarron (1952) and co-starring roles in City Beneath the Sea (1953) and City That Never Sleeps (1953), although she was still taking medication. Following her recovery, she appeared in Bengazi (1955) and B-movie westerns, such as Rage at Dawn (1955), The Storm Rider (1957), and Sierra Baron (1958), and science fiction films, among them The Unknown Terror (1957), The Colossus of New York (1958), Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961), and Doomsday Machine (1972). She also had large roles in Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969). In 1957, she was cast in Man on the Prowl with James Best, Ted deCorsia, and Vivi Janiss.
Price: 49.99 USD
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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