Subject:  Rita Corday (Paula Corday, Paule Croset)

Size:  8x10

Description:  Exceptionally scarce portrait dated 1943 on the reverse, inscribed and signed by the beautiful actress (1920-1992).  Portrait by Ernest Bachrach (backstamped).  Corday appeared in a number of memorable RKO B films including The Falcon and the Co-Eds (1943), The Falcon in Hollywood (1944), Val Lewton's horror classic The Body Snatcher (1945; starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi), The Falcon in San Francisco (1945), and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946).  She was the female lead in the 1952 horror film, The Black Castle, with Karloff and Lon Chaney, Jr.  (Vintage original photograph; true vintage autograph)

Condition:  Fine Plus with some creasing, minor edge wear, and snipe glue remnants on the reverse