Highly scarce vintage 6x9-inch double-weight glossy Universal Studios portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen in the 1930s. In good condition. Before her tragic death at the age of 39, Dominican Republic-born exotic beauty Maria Montez starred in a string of low-budget, Technicolor adventure films, menaced by such over-the-top adversaries as evil caliphs, man-eating sharks and a serpent-worshiping twin sister. Her forays into the horror, sci-fi and fantasy genres included The Invisible Woman (1940) and the jungle flick Cobra Woman (1944).

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