Nifty 8x10-inch black and white publicity portrait, boldly signed in purple felt-tip marker in the 1980s. In ver good condition. Brassy, hard-drinking character actress Maureen Stapleton earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Reds (1982), and was also nominated for her work in Lonelyhearts (1959), Airport (1971) and Interiors (1979). Who could forget her as Dick Van Dyke's manipulative mother in Bye Bye Birdie (1963)?

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