Highly scarce vintage 8 x 9-7/8-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed in black fountain pen during the silent movie era, around the late 1910s. In good condition, with minor surface creasing. Brassy, large-and-in-charge silent and early talkie comedienne Marie Dressler starred in the screen's first full-length comedy, Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), opposite Charles Chaplin and Mabel Norman, and snagged an Oscar for Min and Bill (1931) in 1932. The following year, she stole the show as wisecracking theater doyenne Carlotta Vance in Dinner at Eight (1933).

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