eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7s586 SHANGHAI GESTURE LC '42 Josef von Sternberg, Victor Mature, sexy Phyllis Brooks in nylons! Date Sold 12/9/2010Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Shanghai Gesture (released in France simply as "Shanghai"), the 1942 Josef von Sternberg China Asian gambling crime film noir melodrama ("Shanghai Where almost anything can happen... and does!"; "From the celebrated play by John Colton"; "Not one dared to refuse this invitation!"; "Mother Gin Sling requests the pleasure of your company at dinner on Saturday Evening, the fourteenth of February at eight o'clock at Mother Gin Sling's Casino to usher in the Chinese New Year R.S.V.P. I am SURE you will come!"; "All roads meet in Shanghai where Mother Gin Sling ruled its glittering underworld - where lovely young Poppy was swiftly swept under by a half-mad love - where fatefully fascinating Dr. Omar thanked Allah for the love of which he tired so quickly! Fascinating characters made the stage play memorable - will make the picture unforgettable!"; produced by Arnold Pressburger; about an Asian woman who runs a gambling house in Shanghai, and a rich businessman buys the land it is on, and she must vacate soon, but she has an ace in the hole, which is that she was married to the businessman many years ago, and he has a daughter who has turned up in the gambling house, and the Asian woman gets the daughter addicted to drugs and alcohol, so that she can blackmail her father) starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston ("Sir Guy Charteris! Arrogant - powerful - trapped by the follies of his youth!"), Victor Mature, Ona Munson ("Mother Gin Sling - impassive, strange - with a past people could only hint at!"), Phyllis Brooks ("Dixie Pomeroy! She played a game with her youth and beauty... as the police waited!"), Albert Basserman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore, Clyde Fillmore, Ivan Lebedeff, and Rex Evans NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: UPDATED 12/03/2010: Note that a knowledgeable collector informed us that it is Phyllis Brooks and NOT Gene Tierney in this LC as we initially listed. Please do not bid thinking it is Gene Tierney. Condition: good. There are pinholes around the edges of the card and five near the center of the card. There is a 1" tear in the right of the bottom border that was repaired with tape from the back. Learn More about condition grades
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