Scarce and quite early handwritten, signed letter on a roughly 5x7-inch sheet of stationery, sent to a fan in 1934. In good condition, with a few minor surface creases. English-born Miles Malleson was one of the silver screen’s all-time great character actors, adding color and whimsy to films like The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes’ Greatest Case (1932), Summer Lightning (1933), Nell Gwynn (1934), Brewster’s Millions (1935), The 39 Steps (1939), The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Major Barbara (1941), horror’s Dead of Night (1945), While the Sun Shines (1947), The Mark of Cain (1947), The Queen of Spades (1949), Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), A Christmas Carol (1951), The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Horror of Dracula (1958), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1958), Kidnapped (1960), Peeping Tom (1960), The Brides of Dracula (1960), The Hellfire Club (1961), The Phantom of the Opera (1962), The Brain (1962), Murder Ahoy (1964), and First Men in the Moon (1964).

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