Scarce vintage 8x10-inch black and white publicity portrait for the 1959 television production of Alun Owen's Progress to The Park, boldly signed in blue ink.  In very good condition.  The fine British actress of the stage and screen, remembered as the foremost interpreter of the works of Samuel Beckett, played Mrs. Baylock, wicked guardian of the Satanic child Damien in The Omen (1976).  She made several other notable contributions to the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, with key roles in The Flesh and the Fiends (1960), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968), Twisted Nerve (1968), The Adding Machine (1969), Night Watch (1973), The Water Babies (1978), The Dark Crystal (1982), Murder Elite (1985), Freddie as F.R.O.7. (1992), and The Curse of the Omen (2005).

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