eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9g1217 QUARTERBACK Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation softcover book 1926 Richard Dix, college football! Date Sold 7/8/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Softcover Book (measures 5 1/2" x 8" [14 x 20 cm]; 132 pages) (Learn More) The Quarterback, the 1926 Fred C. Newmeyer silent college university football sports screwball comedy ("Story by W.O. McGeehan and William Slavens McNutt"; "Football game supervised by 'Hurry Up' Yost"; a wacky story of a man who is quarterback of his college football team in 1899, and they lose to their rival, and he vows to stay in school until they beat the rival, and 27 years later, he is still in school, because they have never beaten the rival, and his son is a great football player who can finally let his father leave school, but he doesn't seem eligible to play, although everything works out in the end) starring Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Harry Beresford, David Butler, and Robert W. Craig. Note that Charles Starrett and Barton MacLane were among the many, many people who had uncredited parts as some of the football players. We don't know if any of the other people who played football players went on to fame, but there probably are at least a few! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation photoplay edition (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: this company like Grosset & Dunlap) was a publisher that made a deal with some studios to publish "movie edition" softcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies. They would republish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put an image on the front related to the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades
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