ASTAIRE FRED: (1899-1987) American dancer and actor, the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award. Vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph, the unusual composite image featuring four studies of Astaire in different full-length dance poses in costume as tap dancer Jerry Travers from the American musical screwball comedy film Top Hat (1935). Signed by Astaire in fountain pen ink with his name alone to a light area at the base of the image. Some light surface creasing, largely to the edges, otherwise about VG