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Auction History Result 5t0776 SONG OF LOVE 2 LCs 1929 great images of forgotten Jewish vaudeville singer Belle Baker, rare! Date Sold 9/15/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Song of Love, the 1929 Erle C. Kenton musical romantic love triangle family relationship vaudeville melodrama ("All Talking-Singing Hit!"; "A soul-stirring drama of mother love"; about a husband and wife who perform in vaudeville with their young son, and the wife insists on quitting the act so that the boy can have a normal childhood, but then the father takes up with a floozie, and that breaks up the family, and the parents work separately in vaudeville, and at the climax, the son convinces his parents to get back together, and the three perform on stage again) starring Belle Baker, Ralph Graves, David Durand, Eve Arden and Arthur Housman. Note that Belle Baker is completely forgotten today, but in the 1920s, she was a top vaudeville performer, having started in all Jewish venues, but then she was discovered by Jacob Adler, which led to her performing with the Ziegfeld Follies, and she was given this movie to star in as one of Columbia's first musicals, and she had her own radio show on CBS in the 1930s. She specialized in ragtime and torch songs, including many by Irving Berlin. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this a very rare group of lobby cards for this movie (we have never auctioned ANY lobby cards for this title in all of our years of auctioning until we were consigned these two cards! Condition: very good. Both have minor blank border defects (one has small paper loss in the upper left blank corner) but otherwise the cards are in pretty nice condition and they have no tape whatsoever on the front or back, and they never have had any restoration of any kind! Learn More about condition grades 
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