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Auction History Result 5a0163 GRANDMA'S BOY 1/2sh 1922 granny Anna Townsend tells Harold Lloyd about his grandfather, rare! Date Sold 7/12/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Grandma's Boy, the 1922 Fred C. Newmeyer silent family relationship romantic love triangle comedy (produced by Hal Roach; about a mild-mannered young man who lives with his grandmother, and who competes with a "bully" for the affections of a pretty young woman; a robber comes to their small town, and his grandmother tells him about how heroic his grandfather was in the Civil War, and she inspires the young man to not only catch the thief, but to also beat up the bully and win the hand of his young lady!) starring Harold Lloyd ("His First 5 Part Feature"), Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Charles Stevenson, and Dick Sutherland. Note that this was Harold Lloyd's first feature film after a huge number of one and two-reel comedy shorts. Oddly, this was at first intended to be a serious movie, but Lloyd added a lot of gags and it became a comedy. There are flashback scenes in the movie showing the "grandfather", which are taken from an early Lloyd short. The movie was one of the highest grossing movies of 1922! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this half-sheet (which shows the flashback scene where Lloyd's grandmother tells him about his grandfather's exploits in the Civil War, and the flashback scenes are taken from a Lloyd short, so he plays his own grandfather!). We previously auctioned both styles of first release one-sheets, but that was 22 and 25 years ago, and we currently are auctioning a re-release one-sheet in a different part of the current July Major Auction, but this is the only other poster from this movie we have ever auctioned! To give you a sense of just how rare Harold Lloyd half-sheets are from his silent movies, in all our years of auctioning, we have only auctioned a total of three half-sheets from his silents, and now we are auctioning this wonderful poster (plus another half-sheet from Lloyd's "A Sailor-Made Man", in a separate auction). Condition: very good to fine. The poster was never folded. It has some faint smudges around the edges, and a pinhole in each blank corner. It is not at all fragile, which is really remarkable for a poster of this age and size! Learn More about condition grades 
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