Scarce vintage fountain pen signature on a 3x5-inch tan card, acquired in-person in the 1940s or 1950s. In good condition. With his ruddy Irish countenance and constant air of frustration, prolific character actor Emory Parnell played large-and-in-charge cops, shop owners, relatives, landlords, bartenders, detectives, and military men in a mixed bag of A- and B-level pictures like Call of the Yukon (1938), King of Alcatraz (1938), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The House of Fear (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Young Tom Edison (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), The Case of the Black Parrot (1941), horror’s The Monster and the Girl (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Johnny Eager (1941), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Saboteur (1942), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), The Major and the Minor (1942), I Married a Witch (1942), The Human Comedy (1943), the Three Stooges’ Nazty Nuisance (1943), Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944), Queen of Burlesque (1946), The Babe Ruth Story (1948), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Show Boat (1951), The Long, Long Trailer (1953), and Sabrina (1954).

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