Photograph Inscribed by Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey to Gray Delmar by WHEELER, Bert and Robert Woolsey

Unbound. Fine. Large sepia-toned gelatin silver photograph of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Matted to 10.25" x 13.5". Undated but circa 1930. Mat a little age-toned else about fine. A very nice image of the two comedians on stage in top hats and tails. Inscribed by both in the upper part of the image: "To our Little Pal Gray Delmar, from Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey". The recipient of the photo, Gray Delmar was the young son of author and screenwriter Vina Delmar, best-known for her 1928 novel *Bad Girl* which was adapted into a film in 1931. She wrote a couple of screenplays, one of which was nominated for an Academy Award (*The Awful Truth,* 1937) but thereafter returned to fiction and later to conventional stage drama. Gray Delmar was later involved in television production but died relatively young in a automobile racing accident. Wheeler and Woolsey were a vaudeville comedy duo who had a successful comedic film career throughout the 1930s until Woolsey's death in 1938.