Uncommon vintage black fountain pen signature on a 3.25 x 6-inch tan theater program for a play in which she did not appear but which she probably attended, acquired in-person in 1943. In good condition for its age, with gentle toning. Short, pudgy, perpetually consternated character actress Nydia Westman played maids, busybodies and spinsters in classic films like King of the Jungle (1933), Little Women (1933), Three Live Ghosts (1936), the horror gem The Invisible Ray (1936) with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), Pennies from Heaven (1936), Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937), The Cat and the Canary (1939), The Velvet Touch (1948), Going My Way (1962), and The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966). She also had a memorable role on the very first episode of T.V.'s "The Addams Family" (1964).

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