Vintage green fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person following a performance of "Keep Off the Grass" at New York's Shubert Theater in May of 1940. In good condition, with a small, heavily trimmed original snapshot of the star taken by the original collector affixed below the writing. Gravelly-voiced, large-nosed singer, pianist, comedian, and actor Jimmy Durante was one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through 1970s.

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