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Auction History Result 5t0745 MAN HUNT 2 LCs 1933 obsessed teen Junior Durkin in real life murder investigation, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/15/2020 Sold 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) Man Hunt, the 1933 Irving Cummings family detective crime mystery melodrama ("Seventeen years old and a failure!"; "Little did the boy detective dream that before the night was out, he would be the principal figure in a 'Man Hunt'"; about a teenage boy obsessed with detective stories, and then he gets involved in a real life murder investigation, helping the lead detective solve the crime, or so he thinks) starring Junior Durkin, Charlotte Virginia Henry, Dorothy Davenport (billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid"), Arthur Vinton, Edward LeSaint, and Carl Gross. Note that the stars of this movie are as interesting as the movie itself. One was Junior Durkin, who was best friends with Jackie Coogan, and was also a teenage star, but tragically, Durkin and Coogan's father were killed in a car crash, which drastically changed Jackie Coogan's future. And Dorothy Davenport was Wallace Reid's widow. Reid was a major star of the early 1910s, who fell in love with Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet. He married her, and they made many movies together in the middle 1910s, marrying in 1913. In 1917, Davenport had their son, and she made few movies after the birth of her son, but he remained a top star. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making a movie "The Valley of the Giants", and he was injured, and was given morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this a very rare group of lobby cards for this movie (we have never auctioned ANY lobby cards for this title in all of our years of auctioning, and we have ONLY auctioned one one-sheet poster for it and no other movie paper whatsoever!). Condition: good to very good. Both have varying amounts of slight discoloration in portions of the borders (see our images). Both have a sticker on back at upper right but those have little or no effect on the front. They are otherwise in generally nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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