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Auction History Result 6b180 HALLELUJAH LC 1929 King Vidor all-black musical, great Al Hirschfeld border art, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/1/2018 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 auctioned a single U.S. lobby card 23 years ago, and it auctioned for $1,500. In 2015, we were consigned two individual heavily restored scene cards, one that had a great deal of restoration (and that one sold for $1,197) and the other with a somewhat lesser amount of restoration (and that one sold for $1,927). Now we have been consigned this third card, and while this card has also had restoration, it has had far less than those other two! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: very good. The card had a pair of staple holes in the middle of the left and right blank borders and a pinhole in the top right corner. Someone put a small piece of tape on the back of each of those three areas. There is a diagonal crease in the top left blank corner and a few tiny creases around the edges. It appears someone performed slight touch up to the front of the border pinholes described above, but otherwise, no restoration was performed to this extremely rare lobby card (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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