A vintage page from an autograph album signed in person November 1933 at the Dorchester Hotel, London, by Paul Lukas (1894 - 1971), the Oscar-winning Hungarian actor who had a successful stage and film career in Hungary, Germany, and Austria, before moving to Hollywood in 1927. Lukas was busy in the 1930s, appearing in such films as the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. He followed William Powell and Basil Rathbone, portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, in The Casino Murder Case (1935). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and a Golden Globe, for his role in Watch On The Rhine (1943), opposite Bette Davis. Lukas also starred as Professor Aronnax in Walt Disney's film version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). His film career continued into the 1960s, with nine films, including Fun in Acapulco (1963), with Elvis Presley, Lord Jim (1965), with Peter O'Toole, and his final film, The Challenge, released in 1970. Lukas died the following year, in Tangier, Morocco, reportedly while searching for a place to spend his retirement years. He is buried in Spain.