Item #18-3948 Cobina Wright. (Original Photograph). (Signed and inscribed). Esther Johnson Esther Cobb, Esther Cobina.
Cobina Wright (Esther Cobb, Esther Johnson, and Esther Cobina).

Cobina Wright. (Original Photograph). (Signed and inscribed).

[New York?]: 1932-35. Autographed. Black & White photograph. 8 x 10 inches, including border. Very Good. Mounted on card. Minor residue of glue on surface, and crease in top half. Signed and inscribed.

Cobina Wright, Sr. (20 September 1887 – 9 April 1970) was an American opera singer and actress who appeared in The Razor's Edge (1946). She gained later fame as a hostess and a syndicated gossip columnist. Wright was also known as Esther Cobb, Esther Johnson, and Esther Cobina. She married and divorced twice. Her first husband, whom she married in 1912, was American novelist Owen Johnson; she was his second wife, and they divorced in 1917. Her second husband was William May Wright, a stockbroker, by whom she had one child, a daughter, Cobina Carolyn Wright (aka Cobina Wright Jr.), (1921—2011), briefly a movie actress. the Wrights were divorced in 1935.

From a collection of photographs and other ephemera removed from the scrapbook of a radio music enthusiast. Item #18-3948

Price: $50.00

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