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Auction History Result 4f0454 DEVIL IS DRIVING TC 1937 Richard Dix & Joan Perry, your heart will stand still, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/9/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Devil is Driving, the 1937 Harry Lachman romantic drunken driving crime action thriller ("Chilling thrills run riot!"; "Flaming youth in a thrill-a-second sensation!"; "Thrill sensation of the hour!"; "Arousing you to a white hot pitch of fighting fury!"; "A nation rises in its mighty wrath... to crush America's newest public enemies!"; "Makes your heart stand still with excitement!"; about a son of a rich man who keeps driving drunk, and he uses his father's influence to get him out of every jam, and then he kills an old lady while driving drunk, and his father helps him yet again, but the District Attorney who has helped the father get his son out of jams realizes the error of his ways, and teams up with a beautiful newspaper reporter to see that justice is done) starring Richard Dix (as District Attorney Paul Driscoll), Joan Perry (as the female reporter), Nana Bryant, Ian Wolfe, Arthur Loft, Charles C. Wilson, Robert Emmett Keane, and Elisha Cook Jr. (in his first major role after a handful of minor appearances, as the rich son who keeps driving drunk; he went on to appear in over 200 movies, often playing roles similar to this one!). Note that Joan Perry had been a former model who was discovered by Columbia head Harry Cohn. He put her in a bunch of movies, and then married her, and in 1941, she retired. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good to very good. The card had diagonal paper loss in the top left corner that affected the "MA" of "MAKES". It had some lesser border defects and some smudges and scuffs scattered in the card. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. A talented restorer gel backed the card and performed restoration to the above defects. You can see signs of the restoration, and the defects, but the card displays pretty well. Learn More about condition grades 
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