Surprisingly scarce vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch off-white card, acquired in-person by inveterate autograph hound John Virzi in the 1970s. In very good condition and ideal for matting with a favorite photograph. Best remembered as Tommy, Charlie Chan's #3 son, in several installments of the beloved detective film series, he also popped up as assorted Chinese, Japanese and Korean personages in films like Behind the Rising Sun (1943), Up in Arms (1943), Destination Tokyo (1943), The Purple Heart (1944), Dragon Seed (1944), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), The Keys to the Kingdom (1944), Secret Agent X-9 (1945), Boston Blackie's Chinese Adventure (1949), the sci-fi flicks Conquest of Space (1955) and Our Man Flint (1966), Flower Drum Song (1961), The Love Bug (1968), and Charley Varrick (1973).

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