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Bad Sister, the 1931 Hobart Henley romantic family relationship melodrama ("The girl who wanted everything!"; "Based on the story by Booth Tarkington"; about the wild "bad sister" of a family, who gets involved with a con man, played by a young Humphrey Bogart, and after he takes advantage of her, she turns to a kindly doctor; she has a "good" younger sister, played by a young Bette Davis, and the younger sister loves the doctor, but knows he loves her sister; but later, when the bad sister jilts the doctor, love blossoms between the doctor and the good sister) starring Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart (fourth billed, in his fourth movie, one of the roles he had in 1931 to 1934, before he went back to Broadway, because his Hollywood career had seemingly fizzled out), Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, Charles Winninger, Bert Roach, Emma Dunn, and David Durand. Few people know of this important early Bette Davis role, which is the first movie that was released with her in it (she had a supporting role in "Way Back Home", which was filmed before this, but was released after it). Davis had had success on Broadway in 1929 and 1930, which caught the attention of Universal, who signed her to a contract. But she didn't make a splash in her Universal films that year, and in 1932, she signed a 7 year contract with Warner Bros., and the rest, as they say, is history! Also note that Bette Davis referred to this movie many times in interviews, because she would be asked what her first movie was, and she would say "Bad Sister", and then pause, and add "...and I played the good sister!". Finally, note that poster material of any kind from this movie is incredibly rare (it wasn't re-released, and we don't know that it was released in any other countries).
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Important Added Info: Note that this is the Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition of this novel in its original dust jacket. This book has the original dust jacket. Here are more details about these books: Grosset & Dunlap was a publisher that made a deal with all the studios in the 1910s to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies (there were also some by other publishers, but Grosset & Dunlap printed the lion's share of these). They would republish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would usually include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s, and they are quite collectible, especially if they still have the original dust jacket! 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. Because we know that the dust jacket is an important part of the value of this book, we also pictured the entire dust jacket opened up. Between that image and our other images, you should be able to get a good sense of the overall condition of this book.

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