Scarce vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch light green autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s. In good condition, with a minor fleck of soiling in the area beneath the writing, and a signature of character actor Charles Butterworth on the verso. In good condition. Veteran German stage and screen star Albert Bassermann, who was so memorable in European silent gems like Der Letzte Tag (1913), Lucrezia Borgia (1922) and Christoph Columbus (1923), transitioned into character roles in the United States with the advent of talkies. He was Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of the kidnapped diplomat Van Meer in Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940), in which he performed all of his dialog phonetically, due to speaking no English, and was elsewhere terrific in Dreyfus (1930), Desperate Journey (1942), The Moon and Sixpence (1942), Since You Went Away (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami  (1947), and The Red Shoes (1948).

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