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Auction History Result 5c0308 CHINA SEAS jumbo still 1935 c/u of sexy Jean Harlow standing over Wallace Beery, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Jumbo Still (measures 11 1/2" x 14" [29 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) China Seas, the 1935 Tay Garnett Shanghai romantic love triangle high seas action adventure thriller (a pretty wild story of a captain of a steamship bound from China to Shanghai with a cargo of gold, and his floozy girlfriend "China Doll" is along on the voyage, but he meets his former girlfriend, a classy English widow, and he starts romancing her, which makes his girlfriend jealous, so she plots with her buddy to rob the gold, and the captain is almost killed, and the buddy commits suicide, and the widow realizes the captain loves his girlfriend, even though she tried to kill him, so the widow leaves, and the girlfriend is arrested, and the captain philosophically prepares for another voyage!) starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, and C. Aubrey Smith. Note that the classy English widow was played by Rosalind Russell. She had been signed by MGM the year before, and had played minor roles in several MGM movies. The following year, she got some starring roles, and she would become one of MGM's leading actresses of the 1940s, and one of their most successful actresses during World War II! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned a jumbo lobby card from this movie! Note that in the late 1930s, MGM (unlike the other studios, which created "jumbo lobby cards") instead created these "jumbo stills"! These measured the same as the jumbo lobby cards (14" x 17" [36 x 43 cm]), but they were not color, and they are printed on a quality photo stock, and have the logo for the movie in one corner of the image. They are quite rare! Also note that this jumbo still has been trimmed and it now measures 11 1/2" x 14" [29 x 36 cm]. Condition: good. This jumbo still almost surely originally measured 14" x 17". Someone trimmed it to 11 1/4" x 14", but that did not affect the image of either star or the title of the movie. However, bear in mind this trimming before bidding on this very rare jumbo still! Also, the still was folded 2" from the bottom and someone put tape on the back of that, and there are also some other partial creases scattered in the still, but not in the stars' faces. Learn More about condition grades 
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