Uncommonly early 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the 1950s. In good condition, with some minor creasing to the left edge left by three binder rings. Alluring Dorothy Malone excelled at playing venom-spewing divas, wide-eyed hysterics and murderous femmes fatales. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of a self-destructive nymphomaniac in Written on the Wind (1956), Douglas Sirk’s roman a` clef about the real-life scandals of torch singer Libby Holman, and was also memorable in Night and Day (1946), The Big Sleep (1948), Young at Heart (1954), and the Lon Chaney biopic Man of a Thousand Faces (1957).

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