Quite scarce vintage 5x7-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen in the 1930s. In fine condition, with minor border flaws, including small bends to the top two corner tips. Highlights of the long career of familiar-faced, mild-mannered character actor John Qualen include Street Scene (1931), Arrowsmith (1931), Charlie Chan in Paris (1935), The Great Hotel Murder (1935), Black Fury (1931), The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), His Girl Friday (1940), The Grapes of Wrath (1941), Million Dollar Baby (1941), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Casablanca (1942), Jungle Book (1942), Strange Confession (1942), The Searchers (1953), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).

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