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Auction History Result 4x010 CHINATOWN NIGHTS 7x9.75 still 1929 incredible theater front with huge Chinese dragons! Date Sold 3/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 7" x 9 3/4" [18 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Chinatown Nights, the 1929 William A. Wellman Asia Tong War romantic crime melodrama ("From Samuel Ornitz' story Tong War"; "A Talking Romance"; about a society woman who falls in love with the white leader of an Asian gang, and she ruins her life, but he truly loves her, and he nobly sacrifices himself so she can regain her former status) starring Wallace Beery, Florence Vidor, Warner Oland (playing an evil Oriental; this is ironic since he later became famous as "Charlie Chan" in the 20th Century Fox series!), Jack McHugh and Jack Oakie. Note that it was after this movie that Florence Vidor retired, and the movie was shot as a silent, and she quit before it could have sound added, and she refused to return to do the dubbing, and it was dubbed by a different actress instead (a very similar thing happened to Louise Brooks with "The Canary Murder Case", which was made the same year by Paramount)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in recent auctions we have auctioned small photos of theater fronts from the 1930s and 1940s, which came from a scrapbook that the man who created those theater fronts compiled. The scrapbook also contained eight larger photos (most close to 8x10), and we are auctioning those final eight larger photos in this set of auctions (each in its own auction). In addition, we are also auctioning a different really cool collection of mostly 1930s 8x10 stills that show theater fronts and lobby displays (many of them have a stamp from a Boston company on the back, so it seems likely that most or all of them are from theaters in the Boston area)! All of those stills are in that set of auctions (in separate auctions). Also note that this still has been trimmed and it now measures 7" x 9 3/4" [18 x 25 cm]. Condition: good. The still was slightly trimmed and there are tape stains and surface paper loss in the corners. There is surface paper loss in the upper center of the still, below the "EAT" of "THEATRE" (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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