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Auction History Result 9y0620 LADY FOR A DAY TC 1933 Warren William, May Robson & cast, directed by Frank Capra, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Lady For a Day, the classic 1933 Frank Capra (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) New York City romantic gambling mistaken identity crime comedy ("Takes its place along the greatest pictures ever made!"; "Takes its place with the greatest!"; "From the story by Damon Runyon"; "Screen play by Robert Riskin"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a soft-hearted superstitious gangster and gambler who befriends Apple Annie, an old lady who sells apples in the street, and who has told her daughter at a finishing school that she is wealthy, and Dave the Dude spends a zillion dollars making the dream become a reality!) starring Warren William (as Dave the Dude), May Robson (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Apple Annie), Guy Kibbee (as Judge Blake), Glenda Farrell (as Missouri), Ned Sparks (as Happy), Jean Parker, Walter Connolly (as Count Romero), Barry Norton, Hobart Bosworth, and Nat Pendleton (as Shakespeare). Note that Frank Capra re-made this movie in 1961 (his very final movie) with Bette Davis in the lead role, under the title of "Pocketful of Miracles". Also note that this was the very famous movie where, at the Academy Awards ceremony that year, Will Rogers was presenting the Best Director Award, and he looked at the winner's name, and called out "Come on up here, Frank!", and Frank Capra started running down the aisle, so happy he had won an Academy Award, only to discover that it was actually Frank Lloyd who had won! That must have been a really long walk back to his seat! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that while we have previously auctioned several scene lobby cards from this movie, we have never before auctioned this title card! 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. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good. The card was trimmed on all four sides, extending slightly into the edges of the image on all four sides, but only having a very slight effect on the letters or image on each side. Someone put new borders on the card, and they apparently did not know what should have been in the bottom border, and they put a "LITHO IN U.S.A." in the bottom center and a Columbia Pictures copyright at bottom right, and neither are correct for this card. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then replaced the missing blank borders and touched up the edges of each border of the image, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. One could either live with this being wrong, or one could have additional restoration performed, either by replacing that text with the correct text, or possibly by re-restoring the entire card (because you can see signs of the restoration around the edges of the image). Learn More about condition grades 
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