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Auction History Result 3m0314 STUDY IN SCARLET LC 1933 Anna May Wong stares directly at camera, Sherlock Holmes, very rare! Date Sold 2/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) A Study in Scarlet, the 1933 Edwin L. Marin detective crime murder mystery thriller ("A Sherlock Holmes adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle") starring Reginald Owen (as Sherlock Holmes), Anna May Wong, June Clyde, Alan Dinehart, John Warburton, Alan Mowbray (as Lestrade), Warburton Gamble (as Dr. Watson), and Tetsu Komai. Note that this is an unusual Sherlock Holmes movie, in several respects. A year earlier, Fox had made a "Sherlock Holmes" movie with Clive Brook in the title role and Reginald Owen played Watson, and in this movie, made by World Wide Pictures, but distributed by Fox, Owen now played Holmes! In addition, the Arthur Conan Doyle estate demanded a very high price for the studio to adapt this story, but charged a much lower price to just use the title and the characters, so the studio went with the lower price, and hired Robert Florey (who had written the screenplay for Frankenstein two years earlier) to write an entirely new plot. What he came up with was an initial opening sequence in which Dr. Watson "introduces" his friend Sherlock Holmes and explains all about him, followed by a story where characters are killed one by one, which he "borrowed" from Stanislas-Andre Steeman's 1931 detective novel "Six Hommes Morts", and which Agatha Christie again "borrowed" in 1939 for her classic "Ten Little Indians"! Finally, note that Anna May Wong, one of the first great Asian female actresses of early sound movies had a significant role in this movie, and she is pictured on the advertising! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that until 2018, we had never auctioned any lobby cards or movie posters from this early Sherlock Holmes movie. That year we were consigned a lobby card that sold for $700, which has led us to be consigned a second lobby card, which sold for $406! The buyer of that second lobby card has now reconsigned it to us, so this is still one of only two lobby cards from this movie we have ever auctioned! Also 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 to very good. The card had a J-shaped 3" tear in the center of the top border that went down through the background and then turned and went through the top of Wong's hair. It also had tiny areas of paper loss in the top and right blank borders, with small paper loss in all four blank corners. It had some pinholes around the edges and one in Wong's hair over her forehead, and one in the lower part of her dress. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. The card was "starch backed", which means that it was moistened with a special starch solution, attached to a backing, allowed to dry, and then the card had touch up while it was backed, and afterward, the backing was removed. The card was starch backed by a talented professional and expert restoration was performed to the above defects. The card displayed really well after restoration (and you could see almost no signs of the above defects), but after it was restored, it was handled roughly, and it acquired two diagonal creases in the top left corner and bottom right corner that caused the card to separate slightly in those areas, and someone put tape on the back of each of those creases. Because these defects are in two corners, they are not very distracting, even though they go into the corner of the image in each area. Certainly, a professional could perform slight additional restoration to those creases, or one could leave it as it is. Please bear this in mind before bidding on this extremely rare lobby card. Learn More about condition grades 
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