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MADAME BUTTERFLY ('32) MADAME BUTTERFLY ('32) German program OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5d204 MADAME BUTTERFLY German program '33 different images of Asian Sylvia Sidney & Cary Grant! Date Sold 8/15/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1933 (from the first release of this movie in Germany) Vintage German Film Program (measures 8 3/4" x 11 1/2" [22 x 29 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Madame Butterfly, the 1932 Marion Gering Japan military shore-leave romantic interracial romantic melodrama (based on the play by David Belasco & John Luther Long, which was loosely based on the Puccini opera; about an American Naval officer in Japan who marries a Japanese girl, but is told by his superiors that he can't bring her back home, and he abandons her thinking that this will end their marriage, and he goes home and marries an American girl, and he returns three years later to discover that not only has his Japanese wife has waited for him, but she has their son to surprise him with!) starring Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant, Charlie Ruggles, Irving Pichel, and Helen Jerome Eddy. Note that, as was common in early Hollywood, non-Asian actors were hired to play Asians, and they did this through the use of "yellowface" makeup (similar to "blackface" makeup that had been used for so long). Often, this was in movies that featured "interracial romances" between Asians and westerners, and those who participated in such romances were shunned and often they led to murders or suicides. Thankfully, these sorts of movies and the practice of actors performing in "yellowface" has almost completely been abandoned! It is sad because Hollywood had Anna May Wong, who would have been perfect for roles like this, but she could not get them due to the prejudices of the time. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the eight pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are four pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended). Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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