Scarce vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 2x5-inch off-white autograph page, acquired in-person in 1947. In good conditiion and suitable for matting with a favorite photograph. Dublin-born character actress Sara Allgood played warmhearted mothers, landladies and neighbors in films like Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (1929); How Green Was My Valley (1941), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award; That Hamilton Woman (1941); the horror classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Roxie Hart (1942); This Above All (1942); and Jane Eyre (1943); The Lodger (1944); Between Two Worlds (1944); The Keys to the Kingdom (1944); The Spiral Staircase (1945); Mother Wore Tights (1947); Mourning Becomes Electra (1947); My Wild Irish Rose (1947); One Touch of Venus (1948); The Accused (1949); and Cheaper by the Dozen (1950).

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