Cat. #0009832: MARGUERITE CHURCHILL

Highly rare vintage blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch olive green autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s and decorated with two magazine images of the star. In good condition for its age. There is a small sticker from the third-party authentication service J.S.A. affixed to the verso. After a brief Broadway stage career, raven-haired Marguerite Churchill was signed to a film contract by Fox Studios, making her debut in The Valiant (1929), opposite Paul Muni. Chiefly relegated to B-pictures like Born Reckless (1930), Charlie Chan Carries On (1931), Legion of Terror (1936), and Man Hunt (1936), she headlined in two horror classics in 1936, playing Nancy in the Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff flick The Walking Dead, and Janet Blake in Lambert Hillyer's cult favorite Dracula's Daughter. Following a few more appearances that same year, she abandoned Hollywood to raise a family with actor George O'Brien, resurfacing only once following their 1948 divorce, to star in RKO's horror-themed mystery Bunco Squad (1950). Although she lived until 2000, this is one of only a handful of autographs of the actress we've ever encountered.