eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7k1153 TOMATO OMELETTE 2 LCs 1929 great images of Donald Harris as Smitty & His Pals, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/4/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Tomato Omelette, the 1929 George Marshall silent slapstick juvenile military war comedy short ("Smitty and His Pals"; based on the comic strip by Walter Berndt) starring Donald Harris (as Smitty), Jackie Combs, Betty Jane Graham, Artye Folz, Richard Carle, and Billy Barty (in an early uncredited role). Note that Smitty was a comic strip created by Walter Berndt in 1922. It was about a 13 year old office boy, his girlfriend, his 6 year old brother, and his dog, who were collectively referred to as "His Pals". Berndt based it on his own real life experiences as an office boy. For the first ten years of the strip, Berndt used the same gimmick simultaneously used in "Gasoline Alley", where Smitty aged a year each year the strip went by, so by 1932, Smitty was 23 years old! The strip ran until 1973. In 1928 and 1929, there were ten Pathe comedy shorts based on this comic strip, but those strayed away from the source subject matter and instead were more like Our Gang comedies (which were at that time extremely successful). Movie paper from any of those shorts is extremely rare (they likely made only a one-sheet, a three-sheet and a set of 4 duo-tone lobby cards for each short, and surely few theaters ordered them). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that movie paper from this film is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned one one-sheet poster from this short and NO other movie paper from it until we were consigned these two lobby cards! Condition: very good. Both have a few tiny pinholes around the edges but are otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades
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