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Auction History Result 7s205 YELLOW TICKET LC '31 smoking Lionel Barrymore glares at pretty Elissa Landi! Date Sold 12/9/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 10 7/8" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Raoul Walsh's The Yellow Ticket, the 1931 Raoul Walsh women's liberation prostitution-in-Russia romantic melodrama ("Michael Morton's dramatic sensation"; about a Jewish girl in St. Petersburg at the end of World War I who wants to go to medical school, and her parents ridicule her, but after they pass away, she starts to pursue her dream, but she discovers that because she is Jewish, she can only travel with a special "yellow ticket", and then she is refused admission to the university, but she finds her dead sister's papers and re-applies as her sister and is accepted, and that is only the beginning of this very interesting movie made while the Germans still occupied Warsaw, and some of the scenes were filmed in the Jewish Warsaw ghetto) starring Elissa Landi, Lionel Barrymore, Laurence Olivier (very young in his fifth movie!), Boris Karloff (low-billed and three movies before Frankenstein, he plays the "orderly"!), and Walter Byron. Note that this was first adapted into a movie in 1916 as "The Yellow Passport", and then again in 1918 as "The Yellow Ticket". In 1919, UFA made an unauthorized version with Pola Negri called "The Devil's Pawn". 12 years later, this first sound version was filmed! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this lobby card has been trimmed and it now measures 10 7/8" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]. Note that this lobby card is from a special collection of 41 scene lobby cards, all of which are from Laurence Olivier movies (and each is in its own auction)! The collector who assembled this collection spent DECADES searching out scene cards from as many of Laurence Olivier's movies as he could find, and he always tried to find the best scene in the best condition, and he mostly found first release cards. 40 of the 41 cards show Olivier (most of them an excellent image of him). The one exception is the card from THE YELLOW TICKET, which does not show Olivier (it is extremely early in his career, and it is not clear how many cards, if any, he is shown on). This is a rare opportunity to acquire one or more scene cards of Laurence Olivier, who many have called the finest actor of all time! Condition: very good. The bottom blank border was very slightly (and neatly) trimmed by 1/8", but otherwise, the card is in nice condition! Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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