Vintage original 6.5 x 8.5 in. US double-weight matte photograph of motion picture actor RALPH FORBES c.1920s.

Depicted in an interior studio shot, this photograph was inscribed by Ralph Forbes in black ink thusly: "With my very best wishes. Ralph Forbes. It is in fine+ condition as shown. Silent Cinema Inc. (the seller here) guarantees the authenticity of Ralph Forbes' inscription and signature. This is an actual signature and not a rubber stamp or was etched into the negative.

Ralph Forbes (born Ralph Forbes Taylor; 30 September 1904 – 31 March 1951) was an English film and stage actor active in Britain and the United States. In the United States he appeared onstage opposite actress Ruth Chatterton, whom he wed on 20 December 1924 in New York City. He was 20 years old and she was four days shy of her 32nd birthday. The couple divorced in 1932. He married actress Heather Angel in Yuma, Arizona, on 29 August 1934; that marriage ended in divorce on 18 July 1941. His last wife, whom he married in 1946, was actress Dora Sayers. Following a film career that spanned from 1926 to 1944, Forbes’s latter years were given to working on the Broadway stage. One of his last stage appearances was in a revival of Shaw's You Never Can Tell in 1948. He died at Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, New York, in 1951, aged 46.