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Auction History Result 3r0272 HALLELUJAH 8x10.25 still 1929 King Vidor all-black MGM musical, man & child in field, rare! Date Sold 3/5/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Hallelujah, the 1929 King Vidor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) all-black-cast African American musical ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Singing Picture"; one of the first all-black productions from a major studio; in this case, MGM; a great story of a tenant farmer who sells his family's cotton in the big city, but is then lured by a dance hall girl into a crooked crap game, and he loses all the money, and he tries to shoot the man who cheated him, but he kills his brother instead, and that causes him to "find religion", and he becomes a preacher, but later, the dance hall girl finds religion too, and he dumps his faithful girl for her, but later, the crooked gambler shows up and the dance hall girl goes away with him, and the preacher tracks them both down and they both die, and the preacher is sentenced to the chain gang, and finds his faithful girl waiting for him when he gets out) starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fannie Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, Milton Dickerson, Robert Couch, Walter Tait, and Matthew 'Stymie' Beard NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we don't know who the two people pictured are. If anyone does, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. The still has creases and smudges around the edges, with a tiny tear in the left border, and three tiny pinholes at top center. It has changed to a sepia color (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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