Absolutely irreplaceable vintage postcard sent to reporter Jimmy Starr in 1935, handwritten and signed in fountain pen. In good condition. Note that the image of the star shown alongside the scan of the signed item here is not actually included. Plump, mustached Russian-born character actor Michael Visaroff played Slavic town folk and no-nonsense authority figures in films like The Nickel-Hopper (1926) with Mabel Normand, Ramona (1928), The Last Command (1928), Disraeli (1929), Mata Hari (1931), Suez (1938), The Flying Deuces (1939), The Mad Empress (1939), Madame Curie (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), and A Song to Remember (1945). He is revered by horror, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and crime flick buffs for his noteworthy roles in a number of classic creepies, including the chauffeur in Benjamin Christenen's House of Horror (1929); Dracula (1931), in which he played the nervous innkeeper who warns Renfield that vampires are real; Jean in Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) and the innkeeper in the Bela Lugosi favorite Mark of the Vampire (1935); the sideshow barker in Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932); Dr. Otto Von Brom in Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940); and Verichen in Invisible Agent (1942). This is just the second example we have ever encountered. 

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