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Auction History Result 4z0180 GREAT O'MALLEY WC 1937 cop Pat O'Brien protects Sybil Jason from Humphrey Bogart, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/9/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 17" [36 x 43 cm]) (Learn More) The Great O'Malley, the 1937 William Dieterle family relationship police crime melodrama ("They called him the cop without a heart 'til he fell for a tot without a fear!"; "When the Toughest Copper Out of Erin Meets the Killer of 'Black Legion'"; about a by-the-book cop who ends up ruining the life of a man with a disabled daughter, by being too strict, but that makes the cop change his ways, and he tries to help the family he has hurt) starring Pat O'Brien (in the title role as James O'Malley), Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Frieda Inescort, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill, Craig Reynolds, Hobart Cavanaugh, and Gordon Hart. Note that this movie was released a year after Bogart became a major star with "The Petrified Forest", and yet he is not only third billed, he is billed under child actress Sybil Jason, plus the poster designer could not find room for him on the one-sheet! Note that Sybil Jason was born in South Africa, but was a singing and dancing child prodigy in England from the age of 2. When she was 6, Jack Warner saw her perform, and signed her to a contract hoping she could be a child star for Warner Bros. to equal Shirley Temple at 20th Century-Fox. However, after a few movies, including starring opposite Al Jolson in "The Singing Kid", she did not deliver the hoped for results, and Warner Bros. did not renew her contract in 1938. Daryl Zanuck signed her at 20th Century-Fox, putting her with Shirley Temple in "The Little Princess". She was supposed to have a major role in "The Blue Bird", opposite Shirley Temple, but most of her scenes were cut from the movie (perhaps because it was feared she would "upstage" Shirley Temple, who was "getting old"!), and she "retired". In 1947, at the age of 18, she married a Navy man, and they had a child and were married for 58 years until his passing in 2006, and she passed away in 2011 at the age of 83! 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 posters from this movie are incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a one-sheet from this movie (which does NOT show Humphrey Bogart), and NO other posters (only lobby cards and stills) until we received this window card, which fortunately has a great image of Humphrey Bogart! So this is a case where the window card is far more desirable than the one-sheet, because Humphrey Bogart collectors would much prefer it. Note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 14" x 17" [36 x 43 cm]. 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. Condition: good to very good. Part of the blank top was trimmed off and the card now measures 14" x 17". The card was never folded across the center, but there is a slightly diagonal partial fold above Bogart's head running the width of the card. There is a diagonal crease in the bottom right corner that has tape on the back (so there may have been some or much separation on that crease). There are smaller creases in the right corner. There are tiny staple holes in the top corners. Aside from the above, the card is in pretty nice condition and has had no restoration other than the one piece of tape. Learn More about condition grades 
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