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Auction History Result 2w173 MOVIE-LAND KEENO 8x9 board game 1933 bingo-like game with Hollywood's top stars, complete! Date Sold 12/14/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Board Game (measures 1 1/4" x 7 3/4" x 9") (Learn More) Movie-Land Keeno, the 1929 A.J. Saxe Hollywood-themed keno game with game pieces featuring famous actors and actresses of the era. What a wonderful game this was! Not only is there a fantastic box with full-color art of many great Hollywood celebrities of that time, but the interior pieces are wonderful as well. Basically, this was "movie star bingo"! The box contains eight "boards" that are printed on a thick stock and have great portraits of top stars on one side, and on the reverse are sixteen small images of stars. The box also contains a deck of 48 "cards", which each have one of the stars from the boards on it. Finally, there are a large number of small blue round markers. The person running the game would pass out the boards to up to eight people, and each person would put it with the large image down, so that they were looking at the 16 small images. Each person was given a number of the blue markers, and then the person in charge would shuffle the deck and call off the name of the star, and the players would put a blue marker on that star if they had it. The first person to entirely fill their card won the game! The game was created by A.J. Saxe in 1929, and there is a version of the game that came out that year, which included stars pictured who were headliners at that time, which included Buster Keaton and Lon Chaney Sr., among many others. The game was updated around 1933, and some of the stars from the first version were deleted, and new popular stars were added. We have only seen the 1933 game, so we can tell you that some of the stars in that game include Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and many, many more (48 in all)! We don't know how many of these games survive, but it sure is cool! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, as noted above, this is the 1933 version of this game. There was an earlier 1929 version that had some different stars, and we have never auctioned that version. Condition: very good. We can't say for certain the game is 100% complete, but the only thing that could be missing are some of the blue markers, which would be easy to recreate (or use something similar in their place). The eight large boards have some scuffing and small stains on the sides with the large images, which, of course, is natural, because that side was face down on the table when the game was played. The box has some surface paper loss around the edges of the cover and some tiny stains on the cover, but otherwise, it has survived really well! See our many images to get a good sense of the condition of this item. Learn More about condition grades 
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