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Auction History Result 3k938 VALENTIN PARERA/HARRY COHN/GRACE MOORE/FRANCIS LEDERER deluxe 8x10 still '36 c/u by Lippman! Date Sold 10/27/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Valentin Parera was a Spanish actor from the 1920s to the 1930s. He is perhaps most famous for being the husband of actress and opera singer Grace Moore. Some of his movies include: La condesa Maria, La bodega, and Granaderos del amor AND Harry Cohn was a movie producer from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Platinum Blonde, Lady for a Day, and There's That Woman Again AND Grace Moore was a major New York opera star starting in 1928 (she was called "The Tennessee Nightingale") who was hired by MGM in 1930 to star in a biography of Jenny Lind called "A Lady's Morals", and there was a French language version as well, where she played the lead, but all the other cast were French people. But neither version was a big hit, and she made one other movie for MGM, and then she returned to the opera. But in 1934, Columbia hired her to make another movie, "One Night of Love", and this was much better received, and she appeared in five more Columbia movies, including "The King Steps Out", directed by Josef von Sternberg, who had moved to Columbia after making his very successful Marlene Dietrich movies for Paramount. Grace Moore was killed in a plane crash in 1947, and a biography of her life was made in 1953, "So This is Love", with Kathryn Grayson playing Grace Moore AND Francis Lederer was an Austro-Hungarian actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. Born in 1899, he served in World War I, and then became a stage actor in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Germany. His first movie was in 1928, and in 1929 he got a big break with an important role in G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks. His career really took off when sound movies began (the movies preferred stage actors when they made the transition from silent to sound, and Lederer had a decade of stage experience). In 1931 he appeared in London in the stage play Volpone, and the show traveled to Broadway and then to Hollywood over the next two years, and Lederer decided to stay in Los Angeles, due to the worsening situation in his homeland. He played leading roles in 1934 and 1935, and he was a favorite of Irving Thalberg, who announced that he would make Lederer "the biggest star in Hollywood" but the death of Thalberg in 1935 ended that, and Lederer was soon playing secondary roles, and he spent the rest of the 1930s and the 1940s alternating between movies and the stage, and then in the 1950s he added in much television work. He became an acting teacher, but because he had wisely invested in real estate in the Los Angeles area, he had became extremely wealthy, but he never quit teaching acting and he was still teaching the week before he died in 2000, aged 100 years! Some of his movies include: Die Buchse Der Pandora, Midnight, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, The Diary of a Chambermaid, The Return of Dracula, and The Ambassador's Daughter Important Added Info: Note that this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock. Condition: very good. Someone wrote the names of the people pictured in the bottom border, but the still is otherwise in really nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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