eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1h004 ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES 2.75x4.5 photo 1938 theater display with jail cell & electric chair! Date Sold 10/15/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 2 3/4" x 4 1/2" Photo (Learn More) Angels with Dirty Faces, the classic 1938 Michael Curtiz (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic crime murder thriller melodrama (in this movie, quintessential tough guy Cagney is a hero to the Dead End Kids, and at the end his childhood pal, now a priest, asks him to be a coward as he is led to the electric chair to help keep those kids from following in his footsteps; "A story... mighty with the clash of men! A picture... unforgettable in its greatness!"; "Sensational in it's dramatic impact!"; "From a Story by Rowland Brown") starring James Cagney (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Rocky Sullivan), Pat O'Brien (as Father Jerry Connolly), The Dead End Kids (Leo Gorcey [as Bim], Billy Halop [as Soapy], Huntz Hall [as Crab], Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly), Humphrey Bogart (as James Frazier), Ann Sheridan (as Laury Ferguson), George Bancroft, and Frankie Burke (as the young Rocky; he was an unknown 17 year-old newsboy when he was discovered to play the young James Cagney, because he had an uncanny resemblance to young James Cagney!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: What a wonderful display this is! The designer built an actual jail cell that is mounted in front of images of the Dead End Kids, and inside the jail cell is an electric chair, with the words "But for the grace of God, here be I", and in front of the chair is a life-sized image of Pat O'Brien standing over the kneeling James Cagney! They really knew how to make fancy displays back then! Note that this is one of a wonderful collection of 29 photos (most measure 3.5x5.25, but some measure slightly smaller) that were taken by a man who worked at a large movie theater in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He created wonderful theater fronts and homemade posters (some that were displayed outside the theater and some inside the theater), and after he finished making his displays, he would take a picture of each and then he put them in a scrapbook. It is very rare to find photos of original theater fronts and local theater displays from this time period, and this is a rare opportunity to acquire 29 different ones (each in a separate auction). Condition: very good. The photo was stapled to an album page, and there are staple holes in the corners and slight staining in the bottom blank border (see our images). Learn More about condition grades
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