Choice vintage 8x10-inch sepia-tone publicity portrait, dated 1932 on the verso, the year he appeared in Doctor X. In good condition for its age. Handsome stage and film actor Preston Foster was notable in films like Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (1935), The Informer (1935), Lady in the Morgue (1938), and My Friend Flicka (1943) before embarking upon a second career, as a vocalist and composer of popular songs. The highlight of his musical career was penning "Got My Mojo Working" in 1956, which became a massive hit for Muddy Waters and was selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 500 greatest songs of all-time.

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