eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result g198 QUARTERBACK candid 8x10 movie still '26 Richard Rosson Date Sold 8/16/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" Movie Still (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 the still shows a great candid image of Richard Rosson, who directed the prologue to this movie (he apparently was uncredited). Note that Rosson had been an actor through the 1910s and early 1920s, and apparently, in 1922, he switched to directing, and for the next four years he had a few minor directing jobs and continued to do some acting. In 1932, he co-directed the classic Paul Muni movie, "Scarface" (Howard Hawks is the director of credit, but Rosson did a lot of work on this movie), and worked with Hawks on seven more movies. Note that in this still, Rosson is standing with two of the women from the movie, who are dressed in authentic 1899 costumes (the year the movie was set in), and one of them is holding a football pennant for Colton. Also note that a paper snipe was glued to the back of the still, and then folded over to the front. This was done rather than gluing the snipe to the back, so that the snipe could be unfolded and the still could be displayed with the snipe unfolded, which would let moviegoers read the information on the snipe in the lobby (and of course, the snipe would be folded backwards, so it would not show). This was done with many stills of the 1930s, but often, the snipes are either partially or completely lost, because it is easier for them to be torn off. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, THE SNIPE DOES NOT HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THE FRONT OF THE STILL! Condition: very good. There are faint emulsion scuffs scattered throughout the still, but they are truthfully not very noticeable except when the still is tilted to the light. Learn More about condition grades
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