Scarce vintage blue ballpoint pen signature on a 2x5-inch tan card, acquired in-person by an inveterate New York City-based autograph hound in the early 1950s. In good condition. B-movie regular Joe Downing played icy gangsters and hoodlums in films like The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935), Dr. Socrates (1935), A Slight Case of Murder (1938), The Lady in the Morgue (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Each Dawn I Die (1939), Beware Spooks! (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), Strange Alibi (1941), Belle Starr (1941), Johnny Eager (1941), Larceny, Inc. (1942), and My Gal Sal (1942).

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