Scarce vintage blue ballpoint pen signature on a 4x6-inch tan autograph album page, acquired in-person in the early 1950s and decorated with a magazine image of the star. In good condition, with gentle toning, and nice for matting with a favorite photograph. Great tough guy star Burt Lancaster snagged an Oscar for Elmer Gantry (1960), and was nominated three more times, for From Here to Eternity (1953), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Atlantic City (1980). Other highlights of his superb career include The Killers (1946), Brute Force (1947), I Walk Alone (1948), All My Sons (1948), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Criss Cross (1949), Rope of Sand (1949), The Flame and the Arrow (1950), Jim Thorpe-- All American (1950), Come Back, Little Sheba (1952), Vera Cruz (1954), The Rose Tattoo (1955), The Rainmaker (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Separate Tables (1958), The Young Savages (1961), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), and The Leopard (1963).

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