Highly rare 8x10-inch swimsuit portrait, boldly signed in violet fountain pen at the height of her fame in the 1940s. In good condition. Best known for her portrayal of Gwen Conliffe in The Wolf Man (1941), opposite Lon Chaney, Jr., beautiful Chilean-born British scream queen Evelyn Ankers made many other key contributions to the horror and sci-fi genres, playing Norma Lind in Hold That Ghost (1941), Elsa Frankenstein in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Beth Colman in Captive Wild Woman (1943), Claire Caldwell in Son of Dracula (1943), Isabel Lewis in The Mad Ghoul (1943), Ilona Carr in Weird Woman (1944), Beth Mason in Jungle Woman (1944), Julie Herrick in The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944), and Maura Daniel in The Frozen Ghost (1945).

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