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Auction History Result 4y023 TAXI DANCER insert '27 sexy young Joan Crawford will dance with you at so much per dance! Date Sold 8/3/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Taxi Dancer, the 1927 Henry F. Millarde silent New York City Roaring '20s romantic gambling dancing comedy ("She'll dance with you at so much per dance!"; "From the story by Robert Terry Shannon"; about a beautiful poor southern girl who goes to New York City to become a professional dancer, but she can't find work, so she ends up becoming a taxi dancer in a gambling club, and gets a boyfriend who is a professional gambler; she thinks she meets a rich man who will take her out of this dive, but he turns out to be a thief and murderer, and she returns to her gambler boyfriend) starring Joan Crawford, Owen Moore, Marc McDermott, Gertrude Astor, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Douglas Gilmore. Note that the phrase "taxi dancer" was a Roaring '20s phrase and refers to a 10-cents-a-dance type dancer, who dancers with men for money, and each dance lasts for a set amount of time, and then they must pay again, much like when you are being driven in a taxi! Also note that this movie was very early in Crawford's career. She had had a few major roles before this, but they were supporting to the lead male actor, and this was her first movie where she was the headliner. But she was still so relatively not a major draw to the general public that MGM did not even put her name on this window card (although they did put a wonderfully sexy image of her!). 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 poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. Condition: good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster was never folded, but it was torn unevenly across the upper center of the poster (running above the second "dance" in the tagline, and through Crawford's dress, and there was paper loss at the end of that tear, in the man's pants and in the background to the right of it. There was also a tear with paper loss in Crawford's dress just below her waist and in the man's pants next to that. There was another long tear that separated the bottom part of the poster into two parts. That tear ran slightly diagonally in a vertical line through the center of the title and running down through the left of the stars' credits, and through the top of the "M" of "Metro", and running down to the lower left border. There was one final tear in the bottom right corner running through the lower part of that insert image with some paper loss on the tear. There was major staining scattered in the top right of the poster, and continuing down over the bottom two inset images. There was also some water staining in the upper left of the poster, but pretty amazingly, none of it was in the upper half of Crawford's body or her face! A talented restorer cleaned the poster thoroughly, removing much of the staining through chemical means, and then repaired the tears and re-drew in the areas of paper loss as described above. This poster has had expert restoration and displays pretty well, but the restorer could only do so much restoration to the poster without re-painting large portions of it. (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the poster a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the smudges and faint stains are all that distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 83 year-old original poster!). Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this insert that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if another example of this insert exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). Learn More about condition grades 
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