"Sweetheart of the AEF” Elsie Janis Hand Written Envelope Panel For Sale

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"Sweetheart of the AEF” Elsie Janis Hand Written Envelope Panel:
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Up for sale the "Sweetheart of the AEF” Elsie Janis Hand Written/Signed  Envelope Panel Dated 1925. 

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Elsie Janis (born Elsie

Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of

stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer.

Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" (American Expeditionary

Force). Elsie Bierbower was born in Marion, Ohio, the daughter of Josephine Janis and John Eleazer

Bierbower. She had a brother, Percy John. Bierbower first took to the stage at

age 2. By age 11, she was a headliner on the vaudeville circuit, performing under the name Little

Elsie. As she matured, using the stage name Elsie Janis, she began perfecting her comedic

skills. Acclaimed by American and British critics, Janis was a headliner

on Broadway and London.

On Broadway, she starred in a number of successful shows, including The

Vanderbilt Cup (1906), The Hoyden (1907), The

Slim Princess (1911), and The Century Girl (1916). Elsie

performed at the grand opening of the Brown Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky on

October 5, 1925. Janis also enjoyed a career as a Hollywood actress,

screenwriter, production manager and composer. She was co-credited

alongside Gene Markey for

writing the original story for Close Harmony (1929)

and as composer and production manager for Paramount on Parade (1930).

She and director Edmund Goulding wrote

the song "Love, Your

Magic Spell Is Everywhere" for Gloria Swanson for her talkie debut film The Trespasser (1929).

Janis's song "Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness" was featured in

the Bette Davis movie Dark Victory (1939), also directed by Goulding. Janis

advocated for British and American soldiers fighting in World War I. She raised

funds for Liberty Bonds. Accompanied

by her mother, Janis also took her act on the road, entertaining troops

stationed near the front lines – one of the first popular American artists to

do so in a war fought on foreign soil. Ten days after the armistice, she

recorded for HMV several numbers from her revue Hullo, America,

including "Give Me the

Moonlight, Give Me the Girl". She wrote about her wartime experiences

in The Big Show: My Six Months with the American Expeditionary Forces (published

in 1919), and recreated these in Behind the Lines, a 1926 Vitaphone

musical short. A musical about this period of her life called Elsie

Janis and the Boys, written by Carol J. Crittenden and composer John T.

Prestianni, premiered under the direction of Charles A. Wallace as part of the

Rotunda Theatre Series in the Wortley-Peabody Theater in Dallas, Texas on

August 15, 2014.

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