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Auction History Result 7b0030 MIDNIGHT WC 1934 great close up of Sidney Fox & Humphrey Bogart in deco clock artwork! Date Sold 8/27/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 11 3/4" x 15" [30 x 38 cm]) (Learn More) Midnight, the 1934 Chester Erskine crime thriller starring Sidney Fox (she was a very pretty diminutive actress who began playing leading roles in 1931 at the age of 23, and she appeared in just 14 movies before retiring in 1934 when she married a studio executive; but she had an extremely unhappy abusive marriage, and she committed suicide in 1942, another one of those Hollywood tragedies we hear about all too often), O.P. Heggie (best remembered as the blind man who befriends the monster in "The Bride of Frankenstein", and also as the next door cellmate to Robert Donat in "The Count of Monte Cristo"), Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, Lynne Overman, Katherine Wilson, Richard Whorf, Humphrey Bogart, Moffat Johnson, and Henry O'Neill. Note that this was one of Bogart's final movies in Hollywood during his first period there, and after this, he gave up on Hollywood and went back to Broadway. The movie was quickly forgotten, but in 1947, some clever distributor dusted off this old movie and gave it a noir title, and advertised it with images of Bogart with a gun, and no doubt tricked people into thinking they were seeing a new Bogart movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 11 3/4" x 15" [30 x 38 cm]. Condition: fair. The card was found in the back of a frame where it had been used as a backing board for a picture (many framers in the 1930s would use window cards for this purpose, and they would trim them to the size of the frame, not caring that they were cutting into the image!). In this case, the trimming, which was to 11 3/4" x 15", affects the left and top of the card, and you can see what is missing by looking at our image. Most of the main image remains, and a good part of the title, so one could choose to solely restore the remaining part of the title, or we could provide a scan of the complete card if one wanted to have it entirely restored, and of course, one could choose to display it as is. Bear in mind that there is an image above the title which contains photographs of three men along with background, so it would not be an easy restoration. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its very significant defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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