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Auction History Result 6g633 LE SILENCE EST D'OR 5 LCs '48 Maurice Chevalier starring in Rene Clair's Man About Town! Date Sold 7/30/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 5 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (11x14; LCs; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Le Silence est d'Or (released in the U.S. in 1948 as "Rene Clair's Man About Town"), the 1947 Rene Clair French/U.S. France romantic love triangle comedy ("Amazing New Film Idea!"; "A story of love in Paris... Enacted in French... Told in English by Maurice Chevalier"; "The Grand Prize winner of the 1947 Brussels world film festival") starring Maurice Chevalier ("'The Man About Town'...as M.C."), Francois Perier, Marcelle Derrien (billed as "introducing Marcelle Derrien"), Dany Robin, and Raymond Cordy. Note that master French director Rene Clair had gotten his start in silent movies in the late 1920s, and he felt that sound and modern inventions were not necessarily an improvement, and he felt tremendous nostalgia for the "good old days" (and also apparently disliked the "French new wave", which was just beginning) and he made this very sentimental movie set in the early 1900s, with Maurice Chevalier playing a silent filmmaker in love with a much younger woman who is herself in love with a young man. The movie was very oddly released in the United States, where, instead of subtitling the movie, the actors still spoke in French, but Chevalier narrated the movie over them, explaining what they were doing! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good to fine. Note that these lobby cards have no tape whatsoever on the front or back, and they have never had any restoration of any kind! Learn More about condition grades 
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