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Auction History Result 6t601 GRAND SLAM 8x10.25 still '33 great close up of pretty Loretta Young on Paul Lukas' lap! Date Sold 3/23/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Grand Slam, the 1933 William Dieterle romantic bridge card game gambling melodrama ("It's a riot of fun!"; "Laffs galore!"; it is hard to believe nowadays, but this movie's plot concerns a husband and wife who break up over the husband's devotion to the card game bridge, and after many misunderstandings, the movie ends with the husband in a match against his rival, and he is losing, but at the climax, his wife offers to become his partner in the game, and they win the match, which helps them repair their damaged marriage!) starring Paul Lukas, Loretta Young, Frank McHugh, Glenda Farrell, and Helen Vinson. Note that the card game bridge achieved phenomenal success in the U.S. in the early 1930s! Virtually every married couple played it, and there were daily bridge columns in every newspaper, and the top bridge players, like Ely Culbertson, became famous celebrities! Naturally, Hollywood tried to make a movie about the phenomenon, but watching people play cards on screen is not very exciting, so this was the only such movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm]. Note that not only does our current auction of 999 stills represent the absolute finest selection we have ever had in terms of quality of image and film, but it also represents the finest CONDITION group of stills we have ever had! Half of the stills are graded as being in "very good to fine" condition (which is our highest grade for vintage stills), but we were very strict on this, because otherwise, perhaps two thirds or three quarters of the stills would have received this grade! We downgraded stills to "very good" for pretty minor defects, and many of these might have received our "very good to fine" grade in the past. And the half of the stills that ARE in very good to fine condition would likely be graded "mint" by any other auction! This is the finest group of stills I have ever seen, and I can only hope to equal it someday! Condition: very good to fine. The still is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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