Superb, early-career 8x10-inch black and white 20th Century-Fox publicity portrait, dating to the late 1930s or early 1940s, boldly signed in blue fountain pen with his name alone. In good condition for its age, with minor edgewear. Handsome leading man Tyrone Power was memorable in classic films like In Old Chicago (1937), Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938), Suez (1938), Jesse James (1939), Rose of Washington Square (1939), The Rains Came (1939), Johnny Apollo (1940), The Mark of Zorro (1940), Blood and Sand (1941), The Black Swan (1942), The Razor's Edge (1946), Nightmare Alley (1948), That Wonderful Urge (1948), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He died of a heart attack at the age of 44 and his autograph is rather elusive in authentic format, while secretarial examples abound.

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