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Auction History Result

7x0280 TEN CENTS A DANCE LC 1931 sexy Barbara Stanwyck doesn't enjoy dance with sailor, ultra rare!

Date Sold 12/22/2024
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More)

Ten Cents a Dance, the 1931 Lionel Barrymore New York City romantic love triangle gambling melodrama ("She was a dance hall hostess - but the band never played 'Home Sweet Home' for her!"; "'Come on Big Boy Ten Cents A Dance'"; about the prettiest taxi dancer at a dance hall in Manhattan, and a wealthy man comes to dance with her, but she marries a gambler, and when he loses money she borrows it from the rich man, and eventually, her no-good husband embezzles money from the rich man directly and loses it gambling, and she goes to the rich man and he gives her even more money, and she finally wakes up and leaves her husband, but she returns to the dance hall, but finally at the end, the rich man shows up at the dance hall and shows her tickets for an ocean cruise) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane, Blanche Frederici, and David Newell. Note that famous actor Lionel Barrymore directed six movies between 1913 and 1917, but then solely acted until 1929, when he directed another nine movies between then and 1931. This movie was the last where he was billed as the director!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned five lobby cards from this movie, and we have only once before auctioned this great scene card, showing Stanwyck as a "dime a dance" girl!

Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

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Condition: good to very good. The card had pinholes in the corners, with paper loss in the top left blank corner. It had some smudges, scuffs, and tiny stains scattered throughout. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. Given the card's defects described above, the restorer did a pretty good job, but you can see signs of the defects and the restoration, and the card displays pretty well (see our super-sized images to get a good sense of exactly how the card looks now).
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