Hollywood History James Stewart Signed Photograph with Margaret Sullavan in The Next Time We Love

Jimmy Stewart

Manuscripts & Autographs

Stewart, James. Signed photograph from The Next Time We Love documents Stewart and Margaret Sullavan’s early screen collaboration in the 1936 Universal Pictures melodrama that gave Stewart his first substantial leading role. Sullavan, already an established star and the film’s top-billed performer, appears here with Stewart during the formative stage of his Hollywood career, before the later Capra and Hitchcock performances that established his enduring screen persona. The image supports research into studio-era publicity photography, star authorship through autograph culture, and the professional relationships that shaped American film performance during the 1930s.

Glossy black-and-white photograph, approximately 8 by 10 inches, depicting James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan together in a scene from The Next Time We Love. Stewart has signed the image prominently in blue felt-tip ink, “James Stewart.” Released in 1936 and directed by Edward H. Griffith, the film cast Sullavan as Cicely Tyler and Stewart as her journalist husband, Christopher Tyler; their performances center on the competing demands of marriage, professional ambition, and prolonged separation.

The photograph preserves a screen pairing associated with Stewart’s transition from supporting appearances to leading-man status. His subsequent work ranged from Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life to psychologically complex films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, but this earlier production records the development of the understated performance style that became central to his career. Boldly signed, with clean photographic surfaces and no significant wear noted; near fine. A visually compelling signed document of Stewart’s early ascent and his important prewar collaboration with Margaret Sullavan.

Item #9021

Price: $125.00