Uncommonly early signature in blue fountain pen on a 4x6-inch tan autograph album page, acquired in-person in the early 1940sb and decorated with a small magazine image of the star. In good condition for its age, with an inscribed fountain pen signature of Alexis Smith on the verso. Charming, sardonic, impeccably dressed English star David Niven snagged an Oscar for Separate Tables (1958) and was elsewhere memorable in Dodsworth (1936), Thank You, Jeeves! (1936), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Bishop’s Wife (1947), The Toast of New Orleans (1950), The Moon Is Blue (1953), Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), My Man Godfrey (1957), Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960), The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Pink Panther (1963), Eyes of the Devil (1966), the James Bond flick Casino Royale (1967), horror’s Old Drac (1974), Murder by Death (1974), Death on the Nile (1976), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983).

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