BEERY WALLACE: (1885-1949) American actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor in 1931/32 for his role as Andy ?Champ? Purcell in The Champ. An unusual vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Beery seated in a half-length pose wearing a regal style costume and with a small crown placed on the side of his head. Signed in bold blue fountain pen ink across a lighter area of the image, ?To Beulah, Sincerely, Wallie Beery, Essanay?. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, and with some traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG

Wallace Beery moved to Chicago in 1913 to work for the Essanay Studios and from 1914-16 starred in a number of short comedy films in the role of Sweedie, a Swedish maid character he played in drag.