DUSTY FLETCHER (ca. 1948) Oversize portrait

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Vintage original 14 x 11" (36 x 28 cm.) black-and-white oversize portrait, USA. Dusty Fletcher (1900-1954) was an African American film and stage actor, and frequent vaudeville performer. He became famous for a routine called "Open the Door, Richard", which portrayed a drunk trying to make his way home. That routine included a song of the same name, which he recorded in 1947, and which became a novelty sensation. His films include such classics as RUFUS JONES FOR PRESIDENT (1933) with a pint-sized Sammy Davis, Jr. (who was then six years-old), KING FOR A DAY (1934) with Bill Robinson, and HI DE HO (1947) with Cab Calloway. Photo has a few marginal tears, and some diagonal creasing, NEAR VERY GOOD. -bojangles. N° de ref. del artículo 6509

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