Scarce vintage black fountain pen signature on a 3x5-inch tan card, acquired in-person by an inveterate autograph hound in the late 1940s and decorated with a Players Directory image. In good condition, with gentle edge wear. Bald, diminutive character actor Grant Mitchell was the quintessential harangued husband, bemused father and bilious executive in classic films like The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Laura (1944), and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

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