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Auction History Result 9y0711 DANGEROUS CURVES LC 1929 best close up of Richard Arlen hugging happy Clara Bow, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Dangerous Curves, the 1929 Lothar Mendes circus romantic love triangle melodrama ("The Inimitable Clara Bow Will Thrill You Again!"; about a pretty young girl working at the circus as a bareback rider, sometimes in full clown makeup; she is in love with the handsome trapeze artist, but he has fallen for a beautiful vamp played by an extremely young Kay Francis!) starring Clara Bow ("SEE and HEAR her talk!"), Richard Arlen, Kay Francis, David Newell, and Anders Randolf. Note that Clara Bow was the most famous "flapper girl" of the mid to late 1920s (she became known as "The It Girl" after the character she played based on the popular novel by Elinor Glyn). She had a major role in Wings, and was Paramount's biggest star at that time. But she had a notorious private life and seemingly "settled down" when she married cowboy star Rex Bell in 1931 (she had two children and she retired from movies), but sadly in 1949 she went into a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt (she had had psychiatric issues for quite some time) and she was released but never returned to her family, and lived alone until her death in 1965. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned three lobby cards from this movie, and only one in the last 11 years! We auctioned a different example of this card in a group of two cards in much lesser condition, and that group sold for $1,352! That card has now been reconsigned to us (and the new owner had it paperbacked), so it is still only one of three lobby cards we have ever auctioned from this movie! Note that this lobby card has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the lobby card was backed onto a very light paper backing (acid-free), that keeps the "feel" of the lobby card similar to that of the original lobby card. Some restorers prefer to paperback lobby cards on to a heavy backing, while others prefer to use a very lightweight backing. The advantage of a lightweight backing is that the card still "feels" like a regular lobby card, but a heavier backing makes restoration easier to do and less noticeable. 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. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Prior to paperbacking, the card had small paper loss in the top left corner of the background and it had creases in the bottom left that ran into the right of the Paramount circle and in the background above and below it. It had some fairly minor other defects around the edges, but the image area of the card was in pretty nice condition prior to paperbacking. The card was nicely backed, and displays well. You can see slight signs of the restoration at top left and bottom left, but it is not distracting (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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