eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4b514 I FOUND STELLA PARISH WC 1935 close up of beautiful stage actress Kay Francis, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/19/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 19" [36 x 48 cm]) (Learn More) I Found Stella Parish, the 1935 Mervyn LeRoy romantic theater actress blackmail crime melodrama ("See the story nobody knows, about the woman everybody knows!", a wild plot about a successful English stage actress who disappears without a trace, leaving her infant daughter, and a reporter discovers she had been in jail, which was why she disappeared, and he is won over by her and agrees not to run the story, but it is accidentally run anyway, and her career is ruined, and she ends up in a burlesque show, but the reporter engineers her triumphant comeback, to make up for his mistake!) starring Kay Francis (in the title role as Stella Parish), Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason, Jessie Ralph, Barton MacLane, Eddie Acuff, and Joseph Sawyer. Note that this movie was obviously thrown together from several real-life events, including the disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926, the odd public life of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, and other odd occurrences featuring famous public figures. Note that Sybil Jason was born in South Africa, but was a singing and dancing child prodigy in England from the age of 2. When she was 6, Jack Warner saw her perform, and signed her to a contract hoping she could be a child star for Warner Bros. to equal Shirley Temple at 20th Century-Fox. However, after a few movies, including starring opposite Al Jolson in "The Singing Kid", she did not deliver the hoped for results, and Warner Bros. did not renew her contract in 1938. Daryl Zanuck signed her at 20th Century-Fox, putting her with Shirley Temple in "The Little Princess". She was supposed to have a major role in "The Blue Bird", opposite Shirley Temple, but most of her scenes were cut from the movie (perhaps because it was feared she would "upstage" Shirley Temple, who was "getting old"!), and she "retired". In 1947, at the age of 18, she married a Navy man, and they had a child and were married for 58 years until his passing in 2006, and she passed away in 2011 at the age of 83! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare window card. We auctioned it in 2007, and now that same example has been re-consigned to us 12 years later, so it is still the only example of this window card we have ever auctioned! Note that this window card has been trimmed and it now measures 14" x 19". This window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: fair. There is a thin strip of surface paper loss in the "C" of "FRANCIS" at top right. There are some dot stains, smudges, and scuffs scattered throughout the card, with some light staining around the edges, and a diagonal crease in the lower left and a 1" diagonal tear in the upper left of the image background. Part of the top blank border was trimmed off. Obviously, this incredibly rare card can be restored, but bear in mind its condition defects and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades
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