Especially nice vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait in his prime, boldly signed in black felt-tip pen in his later years. In good condition. Longtime vaudevillian Richard "Red" Skelton entered films in the late 1930s, unforgettably goofy and, at turns, effectively dramatic, in films like Having a Wonderful Time (1938), Whistling in the Dark (1941), Lady Be Good (1941), Ship Ahoy (1942), Du Barry Was a Lady (1943), I Dood It (1943), The Show-Off (1946), Three Little Words (1950), and The Clown (1953). He is probably best known as the host of T.V.'s "The Red Skelton Hour" (1951-1971) and for the celebrated paintings he cranked out after retiring from the screen.