Quite uncommon vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch tan album page, acquired in-person in the late 1940s. In good condition, with trivial show-through from a piece of paper pasted to the opposite side of the leaf. Note that the image of the star shown here alongside the scan of the autograph is not included. Dubbed the "First Lady of Radio," Lurene Tuttle first gained fame on the airwaves, as Effie on "The Adventures of Sam Spade". In the 1940s, she found new work as a character actress in films, playing notorious busybodies, and ditsy wives and relatives in films like Heaven Only Knows (1947), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Goodbye, My Fancy (1951), Room for One More (1952), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Niagara (1953), The Glass Slipper (1955), Sincerely Yours (1955), and the horror classic Psycho (1960), as the sheriff's wife. She had a more substantive role in the "B" crime flick Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960), portraying the deranged Ozark matriarch who, along with her boys, sets people on fire, runs over cops and tommyguns her way into infamy. On the small screen, Tuttle was an amusing regular in a plethora of sitcoms, invariably cast as starchy relatives or gossipy town folk. 

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