Highly scarce vintage 8x10-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed and inscribed to model and actress Eleanor Livingston in 1927.  In very good condition for its age, with light mounting remnants on the verso.  Prolific silent and Golden Age character actor Frank M. Thomas played postmasters, detectives, military men, office managers, attorneys and judges, politicians, waiters, auctioneers, business men, physicians, publishers, and other supporting roles in films like Grand Jury (1936), China Passage (1937), The Man who Found Himself (1937), The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1937), The Toast of New York (1937), Go Chase Yourself (1938), The Mysterious Miss X (1939), Scandal Sheet (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Beware Spooks! (1939), Geronimo (1939), Lillian Russell (1940), Brigham Young (1940), horror's The Monster and the Girl (1941), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), and The Black Robe (1949).

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