{"product_id":"cat-0015661071-rex-ingram","title":"Cat. #0015661071:  REX INGRAM","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eScarce and magnificent vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait in 1938's steamy Broadway play \"Haiti,\" shown shirtless, with his arms akimbo and a pistol tucked in his waistband, boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen in 1939. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light creasing and emulsion crazing. Marvelous Rex Ingram was, for a time, the most prominent Black dramatic performer in Hollywood, second only to Paul Robeson. After medical school training, he was spotted by a movie casting director in 1918 and asked to play an African tribesman in the first of the Tarzan movies, \u003cem\u003eTarzan of the Apes, \u003c\/em\u003ealongside Elmo Lincoln. Ingram subsequently got a succession of the typical roles available to Black actors in the silent era, playing butlers, porters and natives, perhaps most notably in \u003cem\u003eThe Green Pastures \u003c\/em\u003e(1936) \u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn \u003c\/em\u003e(1939) and \u003cem\u003eThe Thief of Bagdad \u003c\/em\u003e(1940).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"Classic Entertainment Autographs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67955994755371,"sku":"lue1793394881143","price":176.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/1891\/2555\/files\/cat-0015661071-rex-ingram_1.jpg?v=1793394886","url":"https:\/\/flowweaveclad.shop\/products\/cat-0015661071-rex-ingram","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}