Scarce vintage pencil signature on a 4x6-inch pale green autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s or 1940s.  In good condition, with a few gentle surface crinkles.  Distinguished-looking character actor Russell Hicks played smooth-talking confidence men and corrupt officials in over 300 classic films, including Cardinal Richelieu (1935), horror's Dante's Inferno (1935) and Man Made Monster (1941), Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), King of Gamblers (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), The Three Musketeers (1939), The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), Johnny Apollo (1940), The Mortal Storm (1940), The Bank Dead (1940) with W.C. Fields, Santa Fe Trail (1940), No, No, Nanette (1940), The Great Lie (1941), Blood and Sand (1941), Sergeant York (1941), The Little Foxes (1941), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), Hitler-- Dead or Alive (1942), The Valley of Decision (1945), Scarlet Street (1945), Dark Alibi (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), and The Fountainhead (1949). 

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