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Auction History Result 6y0615 CONFESSION TC 1937 incredible profile portrait of beautifuil Kay Francis, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/30/2024 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) Confession, the 1937 Joe May older-man-seduces-young-girl-and-years-later-she-kills-him melodrama (about a pretty teen music student, who is seduced by a famous concert pianist, but he makes the mistake of taking her to a club where an earlier conquest of his has now been reduced to being a sleazy lounge singer, and when the older woman sees him with a would-be new conquest, she shoots and kills him and is put on trial for murder!) starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Jane Bryan, Donald Crisp, Veda Ann Borg, Ben Welden, and Mary Maguire. Note that this movie has a fascinating origin! It was inspired by a real life 1930 murder case in Europe. In 1931, it was adapted into the American movie, "Millie", starring Helen Twelvetrees, but even in that pre-Code time, the details of the case had to be altered. In 1935, producers Arnold Pressburger and Gregor Rabinovitch decided to make a German version called "Mazurka", and they hired Pola Negri to come over from the U.S., where her career was winding down. The movie ran into trouble, probably partially because Pressburger and Rabinovitch were "not Aryan" (they would soon both leave Germany), and partially because it was rumored that Negri had had an affair with Hitler, and Goebbels was afraid her making a movie in Germany could cause a scandal, but the movie WAS made, and everyone agreed it was excellent. Warner Bros. liked the movie so much that they bought the rights to it, intending to have Bette Davis star in this American version of it, but it ended up starring Kay Francis, and it was originally called "One Hour of Romance", before they settled on this title, and released it in 1937. It was almost a scene-by-scene remake of this original German version, and Warner Bros. bought the American rights to the German movie and did not allow it to be shown in the U.S., for fear that it would hurt this movie. To this day, "Mazurka" can only be seen in unsubtitled prints (and of course, it would be great to have a modern remake of it)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned four lobby cards from this movie, and we have NEVER before auctioned this title card! 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. The card has darkened, typical of Warner Bros. linen lobby cards of this period. It has a 2" tear in the right border extending into the lower right of the image, and someone put tape on the back of that. It has small tears in the left and right of the top border. It has a 2 1/2" tear in the right of the bottom border, with a vertical crease above it, and someone put a piece of tape on the back of the tear part of that. It has a pinhole in each corner and in the center of the top border, and there is a piece of paper tape on the back of that tear. There are scuffs within the image, in the top of Francis' hair, and some of them extend into the background above her hair and to the right of that. Obviously, one has to decide whether to live with this incredibly rare card as it is, or have restoration performed, but bear all of the above in mind and look closely at our super-sized images before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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