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Auction History Result Lot #: 665 EAST IS WEST ('30) 1sheet  Date Sold 12/15/1996Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Rock, Pop, & Classic Cinema Posters CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh) (Learn More) East Is West, the 1930 Monta Bell China/San Francisco romantic love triangle crime thriller ("From the famous stage play by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer"; Ayres is an American in China who sees Asian Lupe Velez on the auction block, and he rescues her and takes her to San Francisco, where she is about to be forced to marry the Asian Chop Suey King, Edward G. Robinson, so Ayres kidnaps her, intending to marry her) starring Lupe Velez ("as Ming Toy"), Lew Ayres (billed as "Lewis Ayres the Paul Baumer of 'All Quiet On the Western Front'"), Edward G. Robinson, E. Allyn Warren, and Tetsu Komai. Note that this is a remake of the 1922 silent movie starring Constance Talmadge. Also 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! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: Very Good. Learn More about condition grades 
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