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The Hollywood Revue (also released as "Hollywood Revue of 1929"), the 1929 Charles Reisner MGM all-star musical ("All-Talking All-Singing All-Dancing"; "25 Stars and Chorus of 200"; "The last word in motion pictures"; "Dances and ensembles by Sammy Lee"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Marion Davies, John Gilbert, Norma Shearer (Shearer and Gilbert do a scene from Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet!), William Haines, Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton, Bessie Love, Charles King, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler, Jack Benny (as Master of Ceremonies), Gus Edwards, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur (Dane and Arthur), Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (Laurel and Hardy), Cliff Edwards (billed as "Ukelele Ike"), Anita Page, Polly Moran, Gwen Lee, The Brox Sisters, Albertina Rasch Ballet, Natacha Nattova & Co, The Rounders, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Dvorak, The Mawby Triplets, and Conrad Nagel (as Master of Ceremonies), "and a chorus of 200". Note that this was an all-star MGM production, with all of their top stars at the time, but it is best remembered today for being the movie that introduced the classic Arthur Freed/Nacio Herb Brown song, "Singin' in the Rain"! Note that Karl Dane and George K. Arthur appeared in two of the same movies in the mid-1920s, and then in 1927, MGM paired the huge Dane with the diminutive Arthur as a comedy team in 1927's "Rookies", and they were a huge hit, and over the next four years, they appeared in a total of 17 comedies as a Laurel & Hardy-like slapstick comedy team. But Dane had a very thick accent, and he could not make the transition to sound movies, and he had a few bit parts given to him by friends, but by 1934, he was washed up, and he bought a hot dog cart which he displayed outside of the MGM gates! Apparently, he reasonably found this extremely depressing, and he soon committed suicide. The following year, Arthur retired from movies and became a Broadway producer among other careers, and he lived until 1985, when he was 86 years old!
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Important Added Info: Note that this card measures has no left and right blank borders, but it has NOT been trimmed (this was done at a time when MGM was experimenting with having as few borders as possible). Most often, when cards are found like this, they measure slightly under 14" x 22" (sometimes in one or both directions) because the studio would print them to 14" x 22" and then have the blank borders trimmed off before being sent to theaters. But in the case of this card, they obviously allowed for that, printing it larger, and then trimming it down to 14" x 22" (actually this one ended up 14" x 22 1/4"!). No doubt this was done because this was a really major MGM movie and they did not want the cards to have excess in standard window card frames (which is likely why the experiment was abandoned). Also 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.

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