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Auction History Result 4s034 ALOHA TC '31 Ben Lyon & native girl Raquel Torres, a spectacular love epic in Hawaii, rare! Date Sold 2/19/2017 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) Aloha, the 1931 Albert S. Rogell South Seas tropical island interracial romantic melodrama ("A spectacular love epic"; "She Shocked Them - They Mocked Her - This wild tropical beauty who wore a grass skirt to her wedding, but couldn't accustom herself to the silks, velvets and garters - to the do's and don'ts - of her husband's world"; a wild story of the kind they don't make anymore!; about a rich young heir to a coconut plantation who lives on a South Sea island, and he falls in love with a local girl after she does the "Dance of Love", but after they are married and he takes her back to San Francisco, people look down on her because she is "not white", and he defies his father and takes her back to the island, but they have to live in poverty, and they have a son, and they have misunderstandings, and he orders her to stay away from their son, and she goes to a volcano and says she will join her ancestors, and he rushes to rescue her, but gets there just as she jumps in the volcano!) starring Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres, Robert Edeson, Alan Hale Sr., and Thelma Todd. Note that this movie has massive similarity to King Vidor's "Bird of Paradise", made the following year. We don't know if one movie inspired the other, or if there was any controversy at this time over the similarity of the two movies. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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. Condition: good. There is a slightly diagonal crease down the left 2" of the card. There are many stains around the edges, with pinholes in the corners. Someone put two large pieces of brown tape on the back, to reinforce the crease, and to reinforce part of the bottom border (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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