TOUGH to acquire handwritten, signed personal check, dated 1990. In good condition. Gorgeous Austrian-born leading lady-turned-inventor Hedy Lamarr was memorable in classic films like Ectasy (1933), Algiers (1938), Boom Town (1940), I Take This Woman (1940), Comrade X (1940), Come Live with Me (1941), H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), The Strange Woman (1949), and Samson and Delilah (1949).

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