Ultra-rare vintage signature in bold pencil on an unevenly-trimmed portion of a tan autograph album page, acquired in-person in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and matted to about 7x9 inches with a black and white image of the star. In good condition. This is just the second example of her autograph we have ever encountered. The sister of fellow character actor Frank Reicher, dark-featured, German-born Hedwiga Reicher had been a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement in the early part of the 20th century. In the 1920s, she began appearing in American silent and early talkie films, noteworthy in Lucky Star (1929), The Dragon Murder Case (1934), It Could Happen to You (1937), Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), and Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940), but most notably as the innkeeper's daughter in the horror classic Dracula's Daughter (1936).

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