Subject: Richard Loo, Jane Greer, Russell Wade, and More
Size: Slightly under 3.5x5.5
Description: Restaurant postcard autographed on the reverse by several RKO contractees on tour publicizing their studio's 1945 thriller, First Yank into Tokyo. Signed by:
Richard Loo (1903-1983), Chinese American character actor who specialized in sinister types, especially during the World War II years, in dozens of films and TV shows including The Purple Heart (1944), Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet (1951), and the James Bond thriller The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Alan Carney (1909-1973), comic actor; Bela Lugosi co-star in Zombies on Broadway (1945)
Russell Wade (1917-2007), star of the Val Lewton-produced horror films The Ghost Ship (1943) and The Body Snatcher (1945)
Joey Adams (1911-1999), famous comedian
Jane Greer (1924-2001), a rare early signature when she was acting under her real first name, Bettejane; legendary film noir star (Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, 1947)
Rita Corday (1920-1992), horror actress in the Val Lewton-produced The Body Snatcher (1945) and the Boris Karloff film The Black Castle (1952); also in several of RKO's Falcon mysteries and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
Extremely rare. (Vintage item signed in 1945)
Condition: Very Fine Minus with minor age-soiling
