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Auction History Result 6d142 GOOD EARTH 12x15 printed brown bag + 2 tickets '37 used to hold posters & lobby cards! Date Sold 4/10/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Printed Brown Bag (measures 11 1/2" x 14 1/2"), Plus 2 Movie Tickets (Learn More) The Good Earth, the 1937 Sidney Franklin (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Asian China family relationship melodrama ("Never again in our lifetime will eyes behold another show on Stage of Screen to equal it! 3 years to produce! It cost a fortune! Two Crowded Hours of sheer enjoyment!"; "At last its thrills are on the screen!"; "Pearl Buck's Best Selling Novel at least yours to see!"; "Based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Paul Muni (as Wang), Luise Rainer (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as O-Lan), Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch, Charlie Grapewin, Jessie Ralph, Keye Luke, "and thousands more in the Cast". 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. Of course, in the case of this movie, it is set in China and all the characters are Chinese, so it was not a case of an "interracial" problem, but simply that the studio wanted to cast famous non-Asians. Thankfully, these sorts of movies and the practice of actors performing in "yellowface" has almost completely been abandoned! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the person who saved this brown bag also kept two movie tickets from the show that they went to, at the Palace Theatre in Continental, Ohio! Also note that from the 1910s through the 1950s, lobby card sets were sent in brown bags that had the names of the movie and credits printed on the outside. The purpose of the bag was to protect the lobby cards, and they served that purpose well! Since the vast majority of lobby card sets get broken up and sold by the individual card, few of these original printed brown bags survive, except in the cases where someone preserved the entire set with the bag. We don't know if there are "brown bag collectors", but it certainly seems that the printed brown bag from legendary movies would be the most desirable, and ones from lesser movies would have lesser value! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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