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Auction History Result 1v032 I FOUND STELLA PARISH 40x60 '35 sexy full-length elegant Kay Frances in cool deco dress! Date Sold 8/28/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Meloy Bros. Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60") (Learn More) I Found Stella Parish, the 1935 Mervyn LeRoy romantic theater actress blackmail crime melodrama ("See the story nobody knows, about the woman everybody knows!", a wild plot about a successful English stage actress who disappears without a trace, leaving her infant daughter, and a reporter discovers she had been in jail, which was why she disappeared, and he is won over by her and agrees not to run the story, but it is accidentally run anyway, and her career is ruined, and she ends up in a burlesque show, but the reporter engineers her triumphant comeback, to make up for his mistake!) starring Kay Francis (in the title role as Stella Parish), Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason, Jessie Ralph, Barton MacLane, Eddie Acuff, and Joseph Sawyer. Note that this movie was obviously thrown together from several real-life events, including the disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926, the odd public life of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, and other odd occurrences featuring famous public figures. Note that Sybil Jason was born in South Africa, but was a singing and dancing child prodigy in England from the age of 2. When she was 6, Jack Warner saw her perform, and signed her to a contract hoping she could be a child star for Warner Bros. to equal Shirley Temple at 20th Century-Fox. However, after a few movies, including starring opposite Al Jolson in "The Singing Kid", she did not deliver the hoped for results, and Warner Bros. did not renew her contract in 1938. Daryl Zanuck signed her at 20th Century-Fox, putting her with Shirley Temple in "The Little Princess". She was supposed to have a major role in "The Blue Bird", opposite Shirley Temple, but most of her scenes were cut from the movie (perhaps because it was feared she would "upstage" Shirley Temple, who was "getting old"!), and she "retired". In 1947, at the age of 18, she married a Navy man, and they had a child and were married for 58 years until his passing in 2006, and she passed away in 2011 at the age of 83! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of the special 40x60 posters that were created by the Meloy Bros. Inc company of Shelbyville, Indiana in 1935 and 1936! This company created special 40x60 posters that were distributed to theaters in the Midwest, and are NOT like 40x60 posters that were created by the studios at that time. VERY IMPORTANT! CLICK THIS LINK TO READ FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE SPECIAL POSTERS (do not bid on this poster until you have read the information on the linked page). Condition: good to very good. There is surface paper loss and tiny paper loss around the edges of the poster (more so in the corners), and the poster is "lifting" from the board in the corners. There are creases and scuffs scattered throughout the poster, more so in the solid background areas, and there are very few in the stars' faces, or in Francis' figure (study our super-sized image to see exactly what they are, but they are not very distracting). There are also some other scuffs and smudges throughout the image and some dents and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster (please study our super-sized image to clearly see the above described defects). Certainly, a talented restorer could perform restoration to this poster, after which the defects would not be very noticeable at all. Learn More about condition grades 
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