Belita Historic Actress Ice Skater Antique Hand Signed Photo

PFAS177 This is a rare opportunity to secure this antique 5.5" x 3.5" hand signed photo for Belita who has personally autographed the souvenir where her signature rests perfectly accompanying her portrait undedicated and in outstanding condition.

Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner known professionally as Belita, was a British Olympic figure skater, dancer, and film actress.Belita appeared in films, making several highly profitable productions for Monogram Pictures, including skating in Silver Skates (1943) and Lady, Let's Dance (1944), skating and playing the dramatic lead in the film noir Suspense (1946), the female lead in The Gangster (1947), and skating again and playing the dramatic lead in The Hunted (1948). For a brief period, she was Monogram's highest-paid star. Later she worked with A-list stars Charles Laughton in The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949, and Clark Gable in Never Let Me Go (1953). In 1957 she danced with Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings.