Scarce vintage fountain pen signature on a 5x3-inch tan card, dating to the late 1930s.  In very good condition and ideal for matting.  Before his death of cancer at the age of 59, character actor John Emery played a long string of immaculately dapper, urbane rogues and villains-- sometimes red herrings for an even more despicable bad guy-- in films like Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1937), Eyes in the Night (1942), Blood on the Sun (1945), Spellbound (1945), Joan of Arc (1948), and horror's The Mad Magician (1954).  He is also remembered by science-fiction and fantasy fans as expedition leader Dr. Karl Eckstrom in Rocketship X-M (1950).

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