Highly rare vintage black fountain pen signature in his late childhood hand on a roughly 2x6-inch off-white autograph album page, acquired in-person at the height of his celebrity. In good condition. Following wonderful work in classic films like The Fighting Sullivans (1944), Song of the South (1946), So Dear to My Heart (1948), and The Window (1949), child actor Bobby Driscoll was given a special juvenile Oscar in 1949. The following year, he starred in Disney's Treasure Island and, in 1953, he lent his elfin looks and distinct voice to the animated hero Peter Pan. Alas, Driscoll's career fell apart due to a long battle with substance abuse and, despite intermittent sobriety and brief comeback in the 1960s, he tragically died of occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis related to his drug problem in an abandoned East Village tenement at the age of 31. Discovered by two playing children, he was believed to be a homeless man with no family ties and was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, where he still remains.

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