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1m690 OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF CHINA 8x10.25 still '35 c/u of Chinese guards restraining Pat O'Brien!

Date Sold 9/7/2014

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An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More)

Oil For the Lamps of China, the 1935 Mervyn LeRoy big business romantic love triangle family relationship inventor melodrama ("By Alice Tisdale Hobart"; an incredibly complicated story of an American who is sent by an oil company to work in China, and while there, he invents a new kind of lamp, and he intends to return to America with his new wife to start manufacturing his invention, but just before the wedding, his wife-to-be jilts him, and he hires a woman to marry him in a pretend ceremony so that he can not lose face with his company, and that is only the beginning of this very complicated movie!) starring Pat O'Brien, Josephine Hutchinson, Jean Muir, Lyle Talbot, and Arthur Byron
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Important Added Info: Note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm].

Condition: very good. There is a faint stain in the lower right corner.
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