eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7g737 NO PICNIC 2 LCs '20s Smitty & His Pals, wacky images! Date Sold 11/23/2010Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) No Picnic, the 1928 George Marshall silent juvenile slapstick comedy short ("Smitty and His Pals"; based on the newspaper cartoon strip 'Smitty' by Walter Berndt) starring Donald Haines (as Smitty), Jackie Combs, Jack Dempsey (real life heavyweight boxing champion, who appeared in a couple dozen movies in the 1920s), Joseph Belmont, Maude Truax, and Roy Saeger. Note that Smitty was a comic strip created by Walter Berndt in 1922. It was about a 13 year old office boy, his girlfriend, his 6 year old brother, and his dog, who were collectively referred to as "His Pals". Berndt based it on his own real life experiences as an office boy. For the first ten years of the strip, Berndt used the same gimmick simultaneously used in "Gasoline Alley", where Smitty aged a year each year the strip went by, so by 1932, Smitty was 23 years old! The strip ran until 1973. In 1928 and 1929, there were ten Pathe comedy shorts based on this comic strip, but those strayed away from the source subject matter and instead were more like Our Gang comedies (which were at that time extremely successful). Movie paper from any of those shorts is extremely rare (they likely made only a one-sheet, a three-sheet and a set of 4 duotone lobby cards for each short, and surely few theaters ordered them). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. There are smudges at lower right in the top card pictured and there is some discoloration around the edges of both cards. Learn More about condition grades
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