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Auction History Result

8a042 BROKEN BLOSSOMS LC 1919 Asian Richard Barthelmess by Lillian Gish, D.W. Griffith, ultra rare!

Date Sold 8/4/2019
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More)

D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms, the 1919 D.W. Griffith silent interracial romance family relationship boxing murder melodrama (a wonderfully wild story about a Chinese man who comes to London in order to teach Buddhist pacifism to the English people, and he is called "The Yellow Man", and he ends up a disillusioned shop owner, but then he meets the daughter of a boxer who is abused by her father, and he tries to save her, including dressing her as a princess and giving her the first happiness she has known, but her father drags her back home, and when he goes to rescue her, he discovers her father has killed her in a fit of rage, and he takes her body back, and commits ritual suicide so he can be with her in death!) starring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess (as "The Yellow Man"), Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard, and Edward Peil Sr. Note that because Hollywood would not have an actual Asian play a lead role in a romantic melodrama, Richard Barthelmess wore "yellowface" makeup! Note that, as was common in early Hollywood, non-Asian actors were hired to play Asians, and they did this through the use of "yellowface" makeup (similar to "blackface" makeup that had been used for so long). Often, this was in movies that featured "interracial romances" between Asians and westerners, and those who participated in such romances were shunned and often they led to murders or suicides. Thankfully, these sorts of movies and the practice of actors performing in "yellowface" has almost completely been abandoned!
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Important Added Info: Note that first release 1919 movie paper from this D.W. Griffith movie is incredibly rare. 25 years ago, we auctioned two lobby cards, but it was so long ago that we don't have pictures of them. Otherwise, we auctioned two laminated 8x10 lobby cards, and those auctioned for $476, and otherwise, we have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this great lobby card! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

Condition: good to very good. The card had some pinholes and tears around the edges, with a small tear in the bottom of the image, just above the "D.W." in the bottom border. The card had been lightly vertically creased down the left side of Barthelmess' image, going through his back, and it had a crease in the top left background area. Overall, the card was in good to very good condition prior to restoration. A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then performed excellent restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still exactly looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. You can see slight signs of the restoration, but the card displays really well!
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