Uncommonly early 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen to inveterate collector Lucille Sewall in the early 1930s. In good condition, with a few minor surface creases. Elegant leading lady Claudette Colbert won an Oscar for her performance, opposite Clark Gable, in It Happened One Night (1934), and was also memorable in Imitation of Life (1934), Cleopatra (1934), Private Worlds (1935), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), The Palm Beach Story (1942), and Since You Went Away (1944).

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