eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4h008 TELEPHONE GIRL insert '27 operator Madge Bellamy listens in and saves honest politician! Date Sold 7/8/2010Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Herbert Brenon's The Telephone Girl, the 1927 Herbert Brenon silent telephone operator political romantic melodrama ("Based on the play 'The Woman' by William C. De Mille"; about a pretty young telephone operator who listens in on phone conversations, and gets involved in a political scandal and clears the son of a crooked crime boss, and marries him) starring Madge Bellamy (in the title role as the telephone girl!), Holbrook Blinn, Warner Baxter, May Allison, and Lawrence Gray. Note that Warner Baxter was born in 1889, and in the early 1920s he rose to prominence in silent movies, becoming a major star of the 1920s, while he was in his 30s. He won the Oscar for Best Actor as The Cisco Kid in "In Old Arizona" in 1929, and he remained a top star throughout the 1930s! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been folded! Most insert posters were folded twice horizontally right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded example of most insert posters, especially from before 1970! Condition: fair. There is much staining scattered through the poster, but it is mostly pretty faint. There are several pinholes and tears around the edges. There are two longer tears in the middle of the left border, and the paper has been creased from the end of one tear to the end of another, which runs through the girl's face, and there are stains in that creased area. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored! Learn More about condition grades
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