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Auction History Result 1k645 CHINA SEAS linen LC '35 Lewis Stone gives gun to jailed Clark Gable & says blow them to Hell! Date Sold 10/6/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) China Seas, the 1935 Tay Garnett Shanghai romantic love triangle high seas action adventure thriller (a pretty wild story of a captain of a steamship bound from China to Shanghai with a cargo of gold, and his floozy girlfriend "China Doll" is along on the voyage, but he meets his former girlfriend, a classy English widow, and he starts romancing her, which makes his girlfriend jealous, so she plots with her buddy to rob the gold, and the captain is almost killed, and the buddy commits suicide, and the widow realizes the captain loves his girlfriend, even though she tried to kill him, so the widow leaves, and the girlfriend is arrested, and the captain philosophically prepares for another voyage!) starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, and C. Aubrey Smith. Note that the classy English widow was played by Rosalind Russell. She had been signed by MGM the year before, and had played minor roles in several MGM movies. The following year, she got some starring roles, and she would become one of MGM's leading actresses of the 1940s, and one of their most successful actresses during World War II! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The card had its top and bottom borders trimmed off and it also had many scuffs and a few stains scattered in the dark colored areas of the image. Someone put new borders around the card and put tape over them, and then at a later time, someone linenbacked the card as is, without performing restoration. After the card was backed, it acquired staining in the lower right corner (see our image). Please do not bid on this card unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have further restoration performed. Learn More about condition grades 
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