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Auction History Result 6b188 IT'S THE OLD ARMY GAME LC 1926 sexy Louise Brooks isn't interested in Gaxton, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/1/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) It's the Old Army Game, the 1926 A. Edward Sutherland silent romantic screwball comedy ("It's the Old Army Game: Meaning 'Never Give A Sucker An Even Break'"; "From the play by Joseph P. McEvoy"; about a drugstore owner who leases space to a man selling real estate, and when it appears the man swindled people, the drugstore owner leaves town and has all sorts of adventures) starring W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton, Mary Foy, and Josephine Dunn (as a "society bather"). Note that this is a typical W.C. Fields movie in that the plot is very loose and much of the movie consists of Fields performing his trademark gags. As usual in Fields' movies, he has a young female who he has a good relationship with, and in this case it is the young lady who works in his drugstore. But what is wonderful is that young lady is played by Louise Brooks, who would go on to great cult stardom, in some ways rivaling that of Fields himself! However, much of Brooks' scenes concern her and her boyfriend in the movie, played by William Gaxton, and she has almost no scenes with W.C. Fields, and she is not pictured on the posters or the title card. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1926 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a window card (26 years ago) and a much lesser condition lobby card (which didn't show Fields or Brooks) from this movie until we received this great lobby card with a close up of Louise Brooks! 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. Condition: good to very good. The card was in generally nice condition, except that it had some darkening and paper loss in the bottom blank border. The darkening slightly extended into the bottom of a few of the tiny letters in the bottom right (see our image). There were a few creases and tiny bits of surface paper loss in the rest of the bottom border and somewhat in the top blank border. Someone put pieces of another card over the missing area at bottom by taping them from the back, but otherwise made no attempt at restoration. This wonderful card can certainly be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or one could have the above restoration reversed and gel back the card, so that the border defects can be restored and made invisible, but either way, the new owner of this card will have a wonderful (and ultra rare) one to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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