DUSTY FLETCHER (ca. 1948) Oversized portrait

No binding. Good. Photo Vintage original 14 x 11" (36 x 28 cm.) black-and-white portrait, USA. A few marginal tears, and some diagonal creasing, near very good.

Dusty Fletcher (1900-1954) was an African American film and stage actor, and frequent vaudeville performer. He became famous for a routine called "Open the Door, Richard", which portrayed a drunk trying to make his way home. That routine included a song of the same name, which he recorded in 1947, and which became a novelty sensation.

His films include such classics as Rufus Jones for President (1933) with a pint-sized Sammy Davis, Jr. (who was then six years-old), King for a Day (1934) with Bill Robinson, and Hi De Ho (1947) with Cab Calloway.