Beyond rare vintage black fountain pen signature-- one of just two we have encountered in over 35 years-- on a 4x6-inch light green album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s, later annotated in typeface and blue ink along the bottom by some previous owner some decades later, not affecting the writing itself. In fine condition for its age. Note that the image of the star shown here alongside the scan of the autograph is not included with the signed piece. Who could forget Sarah Edwards, that great sourpuss of a character actress, as Mary's disparaging mother in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), the film which makes her elusive autograph a highly valued collector's item? She was also noteworthy as assorted spinsters, gossips and dowagers in films like American Madness (1932), Shadow of a Doubt (1935), Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), People Will Talk (1935), Anna Karenina (1935), The Walking Dead (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939), Sabotage (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Star Dust (1940), Invisible Woman (1940), Meet John Doe (1941), I Wake Up Screaming (1941), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944), The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), The Clock (1945), The Corn Is Green (1945), The Glass Menagerie (1950), and The Lemon Drop Kid (1951).

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