Highly uncommon vintage inscribed blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch off-white card, acquired in-person by inveterate autograph hound John Virzi in the 1960s and decorated with a small magazine image. In good condition, with a square-shaped patch of toning left by an image pasted to the card placed above this one in a stack. Tom Kennedy, brawny boxer-turned-character actor of the silent and early talkie era played big, likable dimwits, unforgettably ratcheting up the comedy alongside W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and Laurel and Hardy.  He also popped up in similar supporting roles in Charlie Chan's Chance (1932), the hilarious short Oh, My Nerves! (1935), The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937), The Princess and the Pirate (1944), They Live by Night (1948), the sci-fi and fantasy flicks Mighty Joe Young (1949) and Invasion U.S.A. (1952), M (1951), and the Lon Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces (1956), among nearly 400 other shorts and features.

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