IMPOSSIBLE to find vintage inscribed black fountain pen signature on an unevenly-trimmed biography from a Players Directory, acquired in-person by inveterate autograph hound Howard Davis and affixed to a 4x6-inch light blue album page. In fine condition for its age. One-of-a-kind English-born stage and screen character actress Margaret Wycherly excelled at portraying menacing, rotten-to-the-core older women. In 1929, with the advent of sound pictures, she recreated her celebrated stage role as phony clairvoyant Madame Rosalie La Grange in Tod Browning's The Thirteenth Chair. Twelve years later, she snagged an Oscar nomination for the role of Gary Cooper's mother in Sergeant York (1941), and, in 1949, she dazzled in the plum role of psychopathic Ma Jarrett, opposite James Cagney, in the gangster classic White Heat. 

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