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Auction History Result 4d0330 FIVE STAR FINAL TC 1931 super c/u of Edward G. Robinson breaking through newspaper, rare! Date Sold 5/3/2020 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) Five Star Final, the 1931 Mervyn LeRoy pre-Code newspaper journalism crime melodrama ("Greatest Picture in 5 Years!"; "Frantic beauty threatens editor"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; Edward G. Robinson is the editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper and he will do anything to sell papers, but when he dredges up a 20 year old murder case that ends up ruining a family's life, he develops a conscience, but what can he do to change an entire newspaper's philosophy?) starring Edward G. Robinson, H.B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Anthony Bushell, George E. Stone, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, Robert Elliott, and Boris Karloff. Note that this movie was Robinson's second movie after his giant hit in Little Caesar, and it reunited him with that movie's director, Mervyn LeRoy, and the movie also has eighth billed Boris Karloff, who was still six movies away from having his giant hit in Frankenstein, and he plays an alcoholic reporter with no morals. Everyone who has seen this movie agrees it is highly underrated with great performances from its stars! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this title card (11 years ago), and that card has been reconsigned to us after all these years, so this is still the only example of this title card 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. There is writing on the back of the card that affects the front (see below). There is a pencil line across the bottom border and some pinholes and tiny tears in the borders with tiny paper loss in the blank corners (there is a piece of cloth tape on the back of the tiny tears in the center of the bottom blank border). Someone used the back of the card to keep the box score of the third game of the World Series in 1946 (between St. Louis and Boston). Apparently, 15 years after the movie was released, someone considered this lobby card "scrap paper", and used it in this fashion! The back of the card is covered with pencil writing and a grid of pencil lines, but the card is on thick paper stock, and even still, the pencil writing on the back slightly affects the front in the light background areas, including unfortunately, in the center of the card in Robinson's face (and it seems like a kind of cool addition to the card, since Boston that year had Dom DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and other all-stars, and St. Louis had Stan "The Man" Musial, Red Schondiest, Enos "Country" Slaughter, and others!). While we have stressed that the writing on the back is noticeable from the front, it is not all that distracting, and we think many collectors would be happy to display this extremely rare lobby card exactly as it is. Learn More about condition grades 
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