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Auction History Result 2a510 PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK 8x10 LC '18 Johnston Forbes-Robertson is The Stranger! Date Sold 5/5/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Card (Learn More) The Passing of the Third Floor Back, the 1918 Herbert Brenon English silent fantasy melodrama (about a mysterious man called "The Stranger", who moves into a rooming house, and he dramatically changes the lives of all the other occupants) starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Molly Pearson, Ketty Galanta, Augusta Haviland, and Sidney Goldin. Note that this was an English movie that was released in the U.S. by First National in 1918. What is really surprising is that this movie contains a strong anti-Semitic subplot where a pretty young woman is being forced into a marriage to a Jewish man (who fulfills all the anti-Semitic stereotypes of that time), and yet First National had no problem releasing the movie in the U.S. (and two of the U.S. lobby cards have very anti-Semitic captions; one reads "The Jew's crafty face betrayed him to the calm appraisal of the Stranger", and the other reads "Oh, God, save me from this revolting marriage"). I have not seen other U.S. movie paper that has clear anti-Semitic sentiments on them. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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