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Auction History Result 8j950 TRADER HORN LC R1930s beautiful white African Edwina Booth & Harry Carey hear juju war drums! Date Sold 8/7/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1930s) Re-Release Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Trader Horn, the 1931 W.S. Van Dyke Africa jungle safari adventure thriller ("White Goddess of the Pagan Tribes. The cruelest woman in all Africa!"; "All talking picture"; "Based on the book by Ethelreda Lewis"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; made the year prior to his returning to Africa to make "Tarzan the Ape Man") starring Edwina Booth, Harry Carey Sr. (in the title role as Aloysius 'Trader' Horn), Olive Carey, Duncan Renaldo, and Mutia Omoolu. Note that this is a famous "bad luck" film, many of the crew contracted malaria, two people were killed, there were flash floods, instances of sunstroke, locusts and more. Edwina Booth was an up and coming actress, but she caught African sleeping sickness while making this movie, and her recovery took a long time, and her career never recovered. After filming, Duncan Renaldo encountered legal problems and was almost deported. As for Harry Carey Sr., many consider this his last "A-picture" before starring in low-budget B-westerns and serials, although he had a memorable role in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Also note that the year after this movie was made, director W.S. Van Dyke had incredible success with another movie set in Africa, Tarzan the Ape Man, which led to one of the most successful movie franchises in history! Finally, note that there was an actual "Trader Horn". Author Ethelreda Lewis, a South African lady, was at her home in Johannesburg, and an old man came up to her house and offered to sell her items. He had been making his living traveling Africa with a large pack on his back containing kitchen utensils and other items which he sold door to door. He also said he had been a big game hunter, a Scotland Yard detective, and many other occupations, and that at that time, he thought he had met more African natives than any other white man who had ever lived! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that there is nothing on this card to indicate that it is a re-release, but we have previously sold the entire set of original 1931 lobby cards, and they have a different layout from this card, which seems likely to be a mid-1930s re-release, perhaps right after director W.S. Van Dyke had great success with the first Tarzan movies (perhaps in 1933 or 1935), although a lobby card expert tells us he thinks these may be from 1938. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good. The card had pinholes around the edges, with two areas of paper loss in the top blank border. It had pinholes scattered in the image, including one in Carey's mouth. Overall, the card was in fair to good condition prior to restoration. A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still exactly looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. You can see signs of the restoration, but the card displays pretty well. Learn More about condition grades 
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