Fantastically sinister-looking vintage 8x10-inch black and white 1930s publicity portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen for inveterate collector Ray Ward in 1967. In good condition, with a few minor handling dings. Maltese-born character actor Joseph Calleia first came to prominence as a concert singer in England and Europe. In 1931, he entered films playing nasty, weasel-faced gangsters, noteworthy in classic films like After the Thin Man (1936), The Gorilla (1939), Juarez (1939), W.C. Fields' My Little Chickadee (1940), The Monster and the Girl (1941), Jungle Book (1942), The Glass Key (1942), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gilda (1946), and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958).

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