eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6h961 WEEK ENDS ONLY LC '32 black maid Theresa Harris helps sexy Joan Bennett adjust her dress! Date Sold 3/6/2014Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Weekends Only, the 1932 Alan Crosland pre-Code romantic love triangle starving artist melodrama ("From the novel by Warner Fabian"; a wacky story of the daughter of a formerly wealthy man who lost his fortune in the 1929 Stock Market Crash, and he kills himself, leaving his daughter penniless, and she gets a job as a "hostess" in a speakeasy, and she becomes involved with a rich man that she doesn't love and a poor artist that she does, and it is pretty easy to guess which one she ends up with!) starring Joan Bennett, Ben Lyon, John Halliday, Halliwell Hobbes, Walter Byron, and Theresa Harris (a pretty black African American actress who started in movies in 1929, and she appeared in 86 movies over the next several decades, but due to the prejudices of the times, she mostly played only maids and other stereotyped roles, but because she was both an excellent actress and an excellent singer, she did have some stand out parts, including opposite Barbara Stanwyck in "Baby Face", where she had equal screen time to Stanwyck; because she made so many movies and because she invested her money well, she was able to live comfortably in her later years, and while she did not get to ever have the starring roles she would have received had she appeared in the 1970s and later, she did live until 1985, so she saw many of the great advances made by black actresses who followed her!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. There is paper loss in the bottom left blank corner and in the upper right blank border, but the card is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades
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