Vintage studio portrait photograph of the American actor, smiling in a herringbone jacket, signed and inscribed in blue ink at right: "Greetings to "Helene" / Fred MacMurray." Fine. 7 x 9.5 inches; 18 x 24 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.

MacMurray starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity (1944) and later won a new generation of fans in Disney comedies and the television series My Three Sons.