Ultra-rare vintage fountain pen signature clipped from the corner of a tan album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s. Just the second example we have ever encountered, in good condition, beyond the irregular shape. Note that the image of the star shown alongside the autograph here is not actually included. Dour-looking British character actress Eily Malyon played no-nonsense, sometimes hideously nasty schoolteachers, maids, governesses and spinster aunts in films like Rasputin and the Empress (1932), The Little Minister (1934), Great Expectations (1934), Les Miserables (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Tod Browning's horror favorites Mark of the Vampire (1935) and The Devil-Doll (1936), The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935), Diamond Jim (1935), Ah, Wilderness! (1935), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936), Camille (1936), Night Must Fall (1937), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), On Borrowed Time (1939), The Little Princess (1939), Young Tom Edison (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), I Married a Witch (1942), Jane Eyre (1943), Going My Way (1944), Scared Stiff (1945), and She-Wolf of London (1946).

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