eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5b126 TIN PAN ALLEY TC 1940 Alice Faye & Betty Grable wearing grass skirts & leis with ukuleles! Date Sold 4/2/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Tin Pan Alley, the 1940 Walter Lang New York City/London England boxing romantic songwriting musical ("Based on a story by Pamela Harris"; about two men who want to be songwriters, but have so little success that one boxes to pay their bills; they meet a pair of singing sisters, and one of them falls in love with one of the men, and she lends the men the money to buy a great song on the condition that she can sing it, but the men double-cross her when a famous star offers to sing it, so she goes to London to join her sister in an act there, and the men enlist in the Army and they get sent to London, where they are reunited with the sisters!) starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins, Esther Ralston, Nicholas Brothers, and Ben Carter. Note that the meaning of the words "Tin Pan Alley" are pretty forgotten today, but in the days before television, just about every home had a piano, and sheet music sold in the millions! In New York City, starting around 1915, 46th Street and 8th Avenue became known as Tin Pan Alley, because that's where all of the song publishers were located, and every would-be songwriter would dream of selling their songs there! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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. We are doing something in this set of auctions we rarely do! A couple of years ago, we were approached by a very long time collector, and he asked us if he could give us an entire auction of single lobby cards by himself. We agreed, and held that auction in 2017, and later that same year, a different collector sent us a different group of 999 lobby cards and we repeated the process. Now we have a third such "single owner" collection. This one was originally assembled in Australia, which is why some of the cards have either Australian paper snipes attached or Australian ratings stamps (but many do not have them). This collection originally contained 1,100 cards, and we auctioned 100 of them in our March Major Auction, and now we are auctioning the remaining 999 in THIS set of auctions, and after this auction, there will be no more cards to be offered. As will immediately be evident when you look at the cards, many of them are from titles where you almost never see any lobby cards, so this is a rare opportunity to acquire many cards that almost never are offered for sale or at auction! Condition: good. There are pinholes scattered in the card, with many smudges and light stains around the edges. There are faint tape stains on the back of each corner. See our super-sized images to get a good sense of the condition of this card. Learn More about condition grades
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