TOUGH to acquire vintage blue ballpoint pen signature on a 4x5-inch orange autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1950s. In good condition and accompanied by a computer-printed image of the star. Stately, icy actress Patricia Jessel was unforgettable as an immortal 17th-century witch who spends three centuries running a hotel-- from which young women check in but never check out-- in City of the Dead (1960), also known as Horror Hotel. She died of a heart attack at the age of 47, having signed few autographs throughout her brief lifetime.

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