eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5c0022 ONE NIGHT OF LOVE Saalfield hardcover book 1934 Beahan & Speare's novel with movie scenes! Date Sold 7/23/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 4 3/4" x 5 1/4" [12 x 13 cm]; 150 pages) (Learn More) One Night of Love, the 1934 Victor Schertzinger (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic opera musical ("A great star comes into her own"; from the story by by Charles Beahan & Dorothy Speare; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a New York singer who is disappointed after losing a radio talent contest, and she goes to Europe where she becomes a singer in a restaurant, but she is discovered by a voice teacher, and she becomes the top European opera star, and they have a romance, and after many ups and downs, they have a successful romance and she becomes a U.S. opera star) starring Grace Moore (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie, and Jane Darwell. Note that Grace Moore was a major New York opera star starting in 1928 (she was called "The Tennessee Nightingale") who was hired by MGM in 1930 to star in a biography of Jenny Lind called "A Lady's Morals". But it did not do well at the box office, and she made one other movie for MGM, and then she returned to the opera. But in 1934, Columbia hired her to make this movie, and this was much better received, and she appeared in five more Columbia movies. Grace Moore was killed in a plane crash in 1947, and a biography of her life was made in 1953, "So This is Love", with Kathryn Grayson playing Grace Moore NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in the 1930s, The Saalfield Publishing Company published "Little Big Books", which were similar to Whitman Publishing's "Big Little Books", and "Better Little Books". All of these were tiny books that each had an image on one side and text on the other. They were mostly aimed at children and teenagers, and often were adapted from comic strips, comic books, movies, etc. Also note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads, which should greatly help you judge the condition of this book. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades
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