eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8f973 SORROWFUL JONES 2 LCs '49 Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Demarest, funnier than the Paleface! Date Sold 5/29/2014Sold 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) Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, the 1949 Sidney Lanfield horse racing sports gambling comedy ("Foreward narrated by Walter Winchell"; "Funnier than 'The Paleface'!"; "Adapted from a story by Damon Runyon") starring Bob Hope (in the title role as Humphrey 'Sorrowful' Jones), Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Thomas Gomez, and Mary Jane Saunders (billed as "Introducing Mary Jane Saunders"). Note that this movie was based on a Damon Runyon short story called "Markie", about a little girl who is given as a "marker" on a gambling debt, and there had previously been a 1934 version of this movie called "Little Miss Marker" starring Shirley Temple, and that it was remade twice again after this version, in 1962 as "40 Pounds of Trouble" and 1980 as "Little Miss Marker"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. Each card has several pinholes around the edges (with some scattered within various edges of the image and some torn or enlarged due to rough removal) and scuffs, smudges and/or creases scattered in various areas. Both have a piece of tape on the upper edge (not put there for any restoration purpose) and the card pictured at top has silver paint along the upper center blank border. Learn More about condition grades
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