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Auction History Result 1w095 CHAMP movie lobby card '31 washed up heavyweight boxing champ Wallace Beery & Jackie Cooper! Date Sold 9/2/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) The Champ, the classic 1931 King Vidor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) father-son family relationship boxing sports melodrama ("The stars of 'The Big House' and 'Skippy' -- now in one picture!"; "Story by Frances Marion"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about ex-heavyweight boxing champ Wallace Beery, who lives with his son, and despite his being an alcoholic and degenerate gambler, his son loves him dearly, but he meets his son's mother, who is now rich and remarried, and he realizes his son is far better off with his mother, but the son runs away, and Beery plans to have another boxing match, so that he can support his son) starring Wallace Beery (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; he tied with Fredric March who won for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, and Edward Brophy NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. There are pinholes in the corners and creases and smudges around the edges of the card. There is slight bleed through from the grid marks of pencil on the back (see the following). Someone used the back of the card to keep the box score of the sixth game of the World Series in 1949 (between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers). Apparently, 18 years after the movie was released, someone considered this lobby card "scrap paper", and used it in this fashion! The back of the card is covered with pencil writing and a grid of pencil lines, but the card is on thick paper stock, and the pencil writing on the back DOES affect the front slightly (but it seems like a kind of cool addition to the card, since the Dodgers that year had one of their best teams ever, including Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Don Newcomb, Gil Hodges, and many more, and the Yankees had Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Yogi Berra, and others!). Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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