Vintage 5x7-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the early 1930s. In good condition. Vaudevillian and character actor El Brendel is remembered for his Swiss immigrant impersonations, notable in films like Rolled Stockings (1927) with Louise Brooks, Wings (1927) with Clara Bow, Sunny Side Up (1929) with Janet Gaynor, the sci-fi flick Just Imagine (1930), Women of All Nations (1931), The Holy Terror (1937), and Machine Gun Mama (1944).

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