Charming vintage 3.25 x 5.5-inch black and white German "Ross" Verlag postcard portrait, boldly signed in blue fountain pen in the late 1920s. In fine condition, with minor creasing to the upper right-hand border. Best remembered for her portrayal of Maria, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's dystopian classic Metropolis (1927), lovely German silent and early talkie film star Brigitte Helm made several other contributions to the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres, portraying Alraune ten Brinken in A Daughter of Destiny (1928) and Alraune (1930); Antinea in Georg Wilhelm Pabst's L'Atlantide (1932), Queen of Atlantis (1932) and The Lost Atlantis (1932); and Florence Wills in Gold (1934).

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