Cat. #00147051: EDMUND GWENN

PROFOUNDLY rare 3.5 x 5.5-inch matte-finish sepia-tone portrait as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street (1947)-- the photo he would send to children who wrote to him-- boldly signed with his name alone in blue fountain pen in the period of the film. A few other examples of the same autographed image have fetched over $1,250.00 at auction! In very good condition and magnificent for display. English-born, classically trained Edmund Gwenn was one of the great character actors of cinema's Golden Age. Best remembered for his Oscar-winning portrayal-- at age 71!-- of Kris Kringle in the holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947), he was elsewhere noteworthy as a mixed bag of kindly authority figures and distinguished villains in How He Lied to Her Husband (1931), The Skin Game (1931), The Good Companions (1933), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Laburnum Grove (1936), Anthony Adverse (1936), All American Chump (1936), horror's The Walking Dead (1936) with Boris Karloff, Parnell (1937), A Yank at