Highly rare vintage 5x7-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed in black fountain pen in the early 1930s. In good condition. Before his tragic death at age 35 in a midair collision during World War Two, Phillips Holmes, fresh-faced, personally troubled leading man of the stage, and silent and early talkie screens, exhibited marked promise in films like The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929), Pointed Heals (1929), Only the Brave (1930), Devil's Holiday (1930), The Criminal Code (1931), Stolen Heaven (1931), An American Tragedy (1931), Night Court (1932), the sci-fi flick Men Must Fight (1933), and the Our Gang feature General Spanky (1936).

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