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Auction History Result 9r710 HALLELUJAH LC '29 c/u of Haynes & McKinney, King Vidor all-black musical, great border art! Date Sold 8/20/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Hallelujah, the 1929 King Vidor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) all-black-cast African American musical ("A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Talking Singing Picture"; one of the first all-black productions from a major studio; in this case, MGM; a great story of a tenant farmer who sells his family's cotton in the big city, but is then lured by a dance hall girl into a crooked crap game, and he loses all the money, and he tries to shoot the man who cheated him, but he kills his brother instead, and that causes him to "find religion", and he becomes a preacher, but later, the dance hall girl finds religion too, and he dumps his faithful girl for her, but later, the crooked gambler shows up and the dance hall girl goes away with him, and the preacher tracks them both down and they both die, and the preacher is sentenced to the chain gang, and finds his faithful girl waiting for him when he gets out) starring Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fannie Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, Milton Dickerson, Robert Couch, Walter Tait, and Matthew 'Stymie' Beard NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: Note that first release U.S. posters from this movie are beyond rare (to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever sold a U.S. one-sheet). We have only auctioned two individual U.S. lobby card before this one, one that auctioned 20 years ago for $1,500, and one that auctioned earlier this year for $1,927! Condition: good. The card was "starch backed", which means that it was moistened with a special starch solution, attached to a backing, allowed to dry, and then the card had touch up while it was backed, and afterward, the backing was removed. This particular card had tears, and small paper loss around the edges. It had two horizontal tears across the center of the image, with one running through the girl's chin and one running through her dress, and there were also many small tears and areas of paper loss scattered throughout the card, but not much in the central image of the two stars, except for the two horizontal tears described above. Overall, the card was in "fair" condition prior to restoration. The card was starch backed by a talented professional and expert restoration was performed to the above defects. The card displays surprisingly well from a reasonable viewing distance, but you can clearly tell that it has had restoration, and you can see slight signs of the above defects, especially the horizontal tears across the middle (please look closely at our super-sized image and read the above carefully before placing a bid on this card). Obviously, one would prefer to find an unrestored example of this card, but any cards from this title area incredibly rare, and this one has a great image as well! Learn More about condition grades 
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