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Auction History Result 7a0686 LITTLE DIPLOMAT linen 1sh 1919 Baby Marie Osborne, Sunshine Sammy as Little Sambo, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Little Diplomat, the 1919 Stuart Paton silent adoption interracial relations juvenile romantic melodrama (a truly wild movie about an rich antiques dealer in New York City who adopts a young French female war orphan, and things go well at first, but then she takes up with the black African American son of a servant, and the adoptive parents and their friends don't like that, but then thieves try to rob the valuable antiques, and the girl manages to lock one of the thieves in the safe, and her adoptive family accepts her!) starring Marie Osborne (billed as "Baby Marie Osborne"), Lydia Knott, William Welsh, Jack Connolly, Murdock MacQuarrie, Velma Clay, and Sunshine Sammy Morrison. Note that this movie has a lot to say about race relations in the U.S. in 1919. The French girl can't understand why the rich people don't like her friend, Sunshine Sammy Morrison (who was referred to as "Little Sambo" in the advertising for the movie, and who is called George Washington Jones Jr. in the movie). There is a really wild scene where the rich people are having a party, and she literally puts whitewash on Sunshine Sammy's face and body, thinking they will accept him if he is now "white", and they are outraged! Also note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. Finally, note that most film buffs know of Sunshine Sammy Morrison as the first "black kid" from the Our Gang movies, starting with the very first ones in 1922 (and they likely know that he later became one of the East Side Kids when he was a late teen). But surely only the very most dedicated film buffs know that he had a very long and successful career prior to his Our Gang career! After making three movies in 1916 and 1917, when he was 3 and 4, he became "Sambo" (sometimes "Little Sambo") in many comedy movies, starting when he was 5. In particular, he was in 13 movies with Baby Marie Osborne, including this one! In 1919, when he was 6, he became Sunshine Sammy Morrison, and he appeared in dozens of comedy shorts before his first Our Gang movie. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned three lobby cards from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind, and none of those three lobby cards showed Sunshine Sammy) until we received this one-sheet! Not only that, but it is also the only movie paper of any kind we have ever auctioned from any of the thirteen collaborations between Sunshine Sammy and Baby Marie Osborne, except for a single French one-panel from "Daddy Number Two", which we auctioned for $1,490 ten years ago. Obviously, movie paper from any of these movies is beyond rare, which makes this newly discovered one-sheet, which prominently shows Sunshine Sammy with Baby Marie Osborne, all the more exceptional! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tears in the top left and top right background area, and someone many years ago put paper tape on the front of those two tears, and they also put paper tape on the front of separation in the top of the vertical fold. There was discoloration in the top blue background area to the left and right of where that tape was. There was also discoloration in the background area at the bottom of the poster, and that may have been a printing defect, or it could have been caused by water staining. The bottom title and credits area were printed slightly off register. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. A very talented restorer backed the poster and corrected the above defects, including the areas of the letters that were slightly off register. This incredibly rare poster was nicely backed and the above defects were expertly repaired by a top professional, and it displays really well! Learn More about condition grades 
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