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Auction History Result 5b210 BERMUDA MYSTERY LC 1944 Preston Foster & Ann Rutherford stare at pretty Helene Reynolds! Date Sold 4/2/2019 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) The Bermuda Mystery, the 1944 Benjamin Stoloff Caribbean romantic love triangle murder mystery crime comedy ("From the story by John Larkin"; about an engaged private detective, who, through no choice of his own, gets mixed up with the ditzy possible heir to a fortune!) starring Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Helene Reynolds, Jean Howard, and Richard Lane. Note that this movie dealt with a "tontine", which is something that was once explored in literature, the idea of a group of rich people putting up either all their money or a lot of money, and the last person to survive inherits everything, which naturally is an invitation to murder! Also, note that 20th Century-Fox intended this as a lighthearted comedy mystery melodrama, and wanted it to be the first of a series, a sort of "Thin Man" type of series, with Foster and Rutherford, but apparently, this first entry did not do well, so it is the only one that was made. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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. We are doing something in this set of auctions we rarely do! A couple of years ago, we were approached by a very long time collector, and he asked us if he could give us an entire auction of single lobby cards by himself. We agreed, and held that auction in 2017, and later that same year, a different collector sent us a different group of 999 lobby cards and we repeated the process. Now we have a third such "single owner" collection. This one was originally assembled in Australia, which is why some of the cards have either Australian paper snipes attached or Australian ratings stamps (but many do not have them). This collection originally contained 1,100 cards, and we auctioned 100 of them in our March Major Auction, and now we are auctioning the remaining 999 in THIS set of auctions, and after this auction, there will be no more cards to be offered. As will immediately be evident when you look at the cards, many of them are from titles where you almost never see any lobby cards, so this is a rare opportunity to acquire many cards that almost never are offered for sale or at auction! Condition: good. The card was used in Australia and there is an Australian rating stamp in one corner. The card was folded across the center and there are some tiny stains and tiny bits of surface paper loss around the edges, with pieces of tape and surface paper loss on the back of the card. See our super-sized images to get a good sense of the condition of this card. Please do not bid on this card unless you can accept its significant defects or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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