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Auction History Result 9j229 SONG OF LOVE WC 1929 great art of forgotten Jewish vaudeville singer Belle Baker! Date Sold 9/18/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Song of Love, the 1929 Erle C. Kenton musical romantic love triangle family relationship vaudeville melodrama ("All Talking-Singing Hit!"; "A soul-stirring drama of mother love"; about a husband and wife who perform in vaudeville with their young son, and the wife insists on quitting the act so that the boy can have a normal childhood, but then the father takes up with a floozie, and that breaks up the family, and the parents work separately in vaudeville, and at the climax, the son convinces his parents to get back together, and the three perform on stage again) starring Belle Baker, Ralph Graves, David Durand, Eve Arden and Arthur Housman. Note that Belle Baker is completely forgotten today, but in the 1920s, she was a top vaudeville performer, having started in all Jewish venues, but then she was discovered by Jacob Adler, which led to her performing with the Ziegfeld Follies, and she was given this movie to star in as one of Columbia's first musicals, and she had her own radio show on CBS in the 1930s. She specialized in ragtime and torch songs, including many by Irving Berlin. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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