eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3j0351 HALLELUJAH candid 8x10.25 still 1929 director King Vidor with black African American kids! Date Sold 12/20/2022Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Hallelujah, the 1929 King Vidor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) all-black-cast African American musical ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Singing Picture"; one of the first all-black productions from a major studio; in this case, MGM; a great story of a tenant farmer who sells his family's cotton in the big city, but is then lured by a dance hall girl into a crooked crap game, and he loses all the money, and he tries to shoot the man who cheated him, but he kills his brother instead, and that causes him to "find religion", and he becomes a preacher, but later, the dance hall girl finds religion too, and he dumps his faithful girl for her, but later, the crooked gambler shows up and the dance hall girl goes away with him, and the preacher tracks them both down and they both die, and the preacher is sentenced to the chain gang, and finds his faithful girl waiting for him when he gets out) starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fannie Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, Milton Dickerson, Robert Couch, Walter Tait, and Matthew 'Stymie' Beard NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this great candid still shows director King Vidor with two of the young black African American males from the cast sitting on a fence. If anyone knows who they are, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. There is a light partial 2" horizontal crease in the bottom center of the image, and there are a few minor creases in the borders, but they are mostly only noticeable when the still is tilted to the light, and the still is otherwise in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades
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