Exceptionally rare vintage blue ballpoint pen signature on a roughly 4x5-inch off-white album page, acquired in-person in the 1970s. Bandleader Robert Blackwell signs on the verso. Note that the image of the star shown alongside the scan of the autograph here is not included. Character actor Rudy Bond is remembered for key roles in three cinema classics: Steve Hubbel in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), the judge overseeing the trial in 12 Angry Men (1957), and Don Carmine Cuneo-- who meets a terrible fate in a revolving door-- in The Godfather (1972). This is just the third example of his signature we have ever encountered.

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