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Auction History Result 4x043 SHOW BOAT 7.25x9 still 1929 front of theater during the day, talking singing musical! Date Sold 3/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 7 1/4" x 9" [18 x 23 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Edna Ferber's Show Boat, the 1929 Harry A. Pollard epic romantic riverboat musical ("Carl Laemmle has the honor to present Universal's Motion Picture triumph"; "Carl Laemmle's Universal motion picture triumph!"; "Combined with the musical hits from the Ziegfeld stage production by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd"; "See and hear the original Ziegfeld stars"; "from the novel by Edna Ferber"; "From the stage play by Ziegfeld"; produced by Carl Laemmle; written by Oscar Hammerstein II, with music by Hammerstein and Jerome Kern) starring Laura La Plante (as Magnolia), Joseph Schildkraut, Otis Harlan, Alma Rubens, Emily Fitzroy, Jane La Verne, Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoe, Tess Gardella (billed as "Aunt Jemima"), Stepin Fetchit, and the Plantation Singers (billed as "with the 'Plantation Singers' singing the songs that made them famous"). Note that this film was originally made as a silent film, but some hasty re-shoots and an added prologue were included in a part-talkie part-singing version that was released at the same time, but most of the talking and singing parts have been lost (but hopefully someone will rediscover them someday). Universal remade the movie in 1936, and that includes Paul Robeson singing "Ol' Man River", and it was remade again in 1951, but it is unlikely to ever be remade again, due to the unfortunate stereotypes of black African Americans presented in the movie (but which were accurate to how African Americans were treated at the time). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in recent auctions we have auctioned small photos of theater fronts from the 1930s and 1940s, which came from a scrapbook that the man who created those theater fronts compiled. The scrapbook also contained eight larger photos (most close to 8x10), and we are auctioning those final eight larger photos in this set of auctions (each in its own auction). In addition, we are also auctioning a different really cool collection of mostly 1930s 8x10 stills that show theater fronts and lobby displays (many of them have a stamp from a Boston company on the back, so it seems likely that most or all of them are from theaters in the Boston area)! All of those stills are in that set of auctions (in separate auctions). Also note that this still has been trimmed and it now measures 7 1/4" x 9" [18 x 23 cm]. Condition: fair. Approximately 1/2" was trimmed from the left and right. There are tape stains and paper loss in the corners. There is surface paper loss in the upper center and scattered down the left (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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