Vintage 5x7-inch matte-finish black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the early 1940s. In good condition for its age, with pinholes at the top and bottom corner tips, and a light handling bend above his right shoulder. Irascible Charles Coburn was one of Hollywood's all-time great character actors. He snagged an Academy Award for his standout performance in The More the Merrier (1943) and was elsewhere unforgettable in Boss Tweed (1933), Of Human Hearts (1938), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), The Lady Eve (1941), In This Our Life (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943), The Paradine Case (1947), Monkey Business (1952), and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).

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