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Sarah and Son, the 1930 Dorothy Arzner romantic marriage melodrama ("'Doctor's Secret' 'Charming Sinners' 'Madame X' 'Laughing Lady' now- Sarah and Son"; about a woman who has a loser husband who abuses her and her child, and then kidnaps the child and literally sells him to a rich family; years later, the woman is now a famous opera singer, and she endlessly searches for her lost son!) starring Ruth Chatterton (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Sarah Storm), Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery, and Dories Lloyd. Like most of director Arzner's movies, this one dealt with a very independent woman who must fend for herself, and in this case, the male lead is presented in the worst possible light! Also note that this movie was made at the time when it was fashionable to film movies in more than one language, so that the sets could be reused for the various versions, and sometimes some of the top cast were in more than one version (either they spoke the other language, or they read their lines phonetically; we have seen many films from this time that have two or three different versions, but this one has a remarkable SEVEN different versions: Toute sa vie, Hjartats rost, Il richiamo del cuore, Toda una vida, A Cancao do Berco, and Glos serca)! Also note that Dorothy Arzner was a director from the 1920s to the 1940s, and she was the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood ('20s to '40s) and she was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America. Arzner was a lesbian at a time when almost no females openly were, and she was surprisingly open about it, often dressing in "men's clothes" and wearing her hair short. She made many "women's movies" and movies with a "feminist" theme. After making "First Comes Courage" in 1943, she made training films for the U.S. Army WACs, and she never returned to making Hollywood movies, becoming a film teacher of directing and screenwriting, teaching at UCLA until her passing in 1979.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is the London Book Company photoplay edition in its original dust jacket (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: World Publishing (like Grosset & Dunlap) was a publisher that made a deal with some studios to publish "movie edition" hardcovers 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 a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. Oddly, in the case of this movie edition, they did not include any images from the movie within the book, but the stars' images are on the cover of the dust jacket. Perhaps it was published before the movie even was ready, so they did not have access to images from the film. 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. Because we know that the dust jacket is an important part of the value of this book, we also pictured the entire dust jacket opened up. Between that image and our other images, you should be able to get a good sense of the overall condition of this book.

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