Bold vintage black fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch pale yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person in 1944 and decorated with a magazine image of the star. Apart from over thirty Broadway appearances during the course of a five-decade career, prolific character actress Mary Boland found time to perform in dozens of films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, memorably typecast as addle-brained wives or society matrons. She was frequently paired with Charlie Ruggles, but appeared to better effect in such films as Ruggles of Red Gap (1935), The Women (1939) and Pride and Prejudice (1940).

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