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Auction History Result 3y591 MADAME BUTTERFLY 8x10 still '32 great close up of Asian Sylvia Sidney by cool screen! Date Sold 12/21/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Madame Butterfly, the 1932 Marion Gering Japan military shore-leave romantic interracial romantic melodrama (based on the play by David Belasco & John Luther Long, which was loosely based on the Puccini opera; about an American Naval officer in Japan who marries a Japanese girl, but is told by his superiors that he can't bring her back home, and he abandons her thinking that this will end their marriage, and he goes home and marries an American girl, and he returns three years later to discover that not only has his Japanese wife has waited for him, but she has their son to surprise him with!) starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel, and Helen Jerome Eddy. Note that, as was common in early Hollywood, non-Asian actors were hired to play Asians, and they did this through the use of "yellowface" makeup (similar to "blackface" makeup that had been used for so long). Often, this was in movies that featured "interracial romances" between Asians and westerners, and those who participated in such romances were shunned and often they led to murders or suicides. Thankfully, these sorts of movies and the practice of actors performing in "yellowface" has almost completely been abandoned! It is sad because Hollywood had Anna May Wong, who would have been perfect for roles like this, but she could not get them due to the prejudices of the time. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. The still has changed to a sepia color and there are pinholes in the corners and one in the center of the top border. Learn More about condition grades 
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