TOUGH to acquire vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed in blue fountain pen in the late 1940s. In good condition, with a few minor handling dings. Veteran stage and movie character actress Marjorie Gateson excelled at playing haughty, aloof women of wealth and breeding, perhaps most memorably the society matron who attempts to thwart Mae West's plans for social advancement in Goin' to Town (1935) and the one Harold Lloyd teaches to box in The Milky Way (1936). Her other film and television credits are too numerous to list.

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