Highly scarce and very special signature in blue fountain pen on a 4x6-inch tan autograph album page, with the star mocking her old age: "The child actress greets you-- Marie Dressler." In good condition. 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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