eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6w0324 MATINEE IDOL 8x10.25 still 1928 great portrait of pretty Bessie Love, early Frank Capra, rare! Date Sold 12/10/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Matinee Idol, the 1928 Frank Capra silent Broadway mistaken identity stage acting romantic comedy (about a handsome movie star who anonymously joins a local acting troupe on a lark, and they don't recognize him, but then he falls in love with the leading lady) starring Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker (in the title role as Don Wilson/Harry Mann), Ernest Hilliard, Lionel Belmore, and David Mir. Note that legendary director Frank Capra had gotten his start in 1924 when he was hired by Hal Roach as a gag writer. However, he wanted to become a director, and Roach refused, and Capra went to work for Mack Sennett, writing for Harry Langdon comedy shorts. In 1925, when Langdon left Sennett, Capra went with him, and he wrote several of Langdon's best comedies, including "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" and "The Strong Man", which Capra also directed. Another Langdon short, "Long Pants", was his next movie, but he was having a falling out with Langdon, and after that movie was completed, Langdon fired Capra, and decided to direct his own movies (like Charlie Chaplin), but those movies did poorly, while of course, Frank Capra soon went to Columbia, where he became increasingly successful with movies like this one, and a couple of years later, he became their number one director, and he had a long string of massive hits in the 1930s and 1940s, including "It Happened One Night", "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", and many others! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a glass slide from this movie, and NO other movie paper, until we received this still! Note that in our last set of auctions that include multiple stills from single titles, we had 72 sets of stills that came from a wonderful group of just-discovered stills that are from 1927 to 1929, with the majority from 1928 exactly. Now, we are auctioning the remaining stills from this wonderful group, 131, all in separate auctions. In addition to them including a LOT of previously unseen stills (and sometimes from incredibly rare titles!), most of these stills have either snipes on the bottom or back, and many have some pencil writing on the back about the movie or actors. After these stills are auctioned, there will be no more stills from this wonderful collection! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades
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