Cat. #0060523: CLARA KIMBALL YOUNG

Scarce vintage fountain pen signature on a 3.5 x 6-inch pink autograph album page, acquired in-person, probably in the 1930s. In very good condition and ideal for matting with a favorite photograph. After a stint in one-real silent comedies, raven-haired, saucer-eyed Clara Kimball Young found her niche playing worldly, sophisticated ladies in Vitagraph dramas like Delayed Proposals (1913), Without a Soul (1914) and My Official Wife (1914). By 1914, she had cemented her image as a temperamental diva-- onscreen and off!-- and was widely considered the screen's most popular actress. After entering into a tryst with Lewis J. Sleznick and shifting to his studio, cranked out acclaimed pictures like Camille (1915), Hearts in Exile (1915), Trilby (1915) and Eyes of Youth (1919) with then-newcomer Rudolph Valentino. Alas, by the tail-end of the silent era, her impossible antics with colleagues, wild personal antics and rude attitude with fans-- including kicking an autograph hound in the rump,