Rare vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch light green autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s. In good condition, with the tip of the C in his first name a little light and some ink stains from the pen in the upper left-hand corner. Priced accordingly. Pioneering German-born film producer Carl Laemmle, Sr. founded Universal Studios in 1912 and launched the careers of wunderkind Irving Thalberg, director Rex Ingram and the iconic Lon Chaney, among so many others. He is especially dear to the hearts of horror buffs:  Famously saying, “We love the thing that shocks us and sends chills down our spine,” he was responsible for the productions of the Chaney masterpieces The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

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