Uncommon-- especially in this size-- vintage 8x10-inch matte-finish black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in green fountain pen in his adolescence. In fine condition for its age, with a tape stain to the lower border, a patch of paper loss to the upper edge and minor corner wear, all of which could be trimmed away or matted out. English-born Freddie Bartholomew was one of the most popular child actors in film history, marvelous in classic films like David Copperfield (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), Captains Courageous (1937), and Swiss Family Robinson (1940). He died of emphysema and heart failure at the age of 67.

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