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Auction History Result 9z0300 QUEEN OF BROADWAY Belgian 1940s bookie Rochelle Hudson, Buster Crabbe & Paul Bryar! Date Sold 10/28/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/2" x 16 1/2" [29 x 42 cm]) (Learn More) Queen of Broadway, the 1942 Sam Newfield New York City bookie gambling sports romantic melodrama (a sort of remake of Little Miss Marker with the sexes of the two leads reversed; Hudson owns a successful illegal bookmaking business in NYC, and Crabbe's father owns a football team; a woman sends her six year old son to place a bet for her and while the son is there, the mother dies, and Hudson reluctantly keeps the boy, because he has nowhere to go, but then she comes to love him and wants to adopt him, but the courts won't let a single bookmaking woman adopt, which is where Buster Crabbe comes in!) starring Rochelle Hudson (in the title role as Sherry Baker), Buster Crabbe, Paul Bryar, Emmett Lynn, Donald Mayo (who plays the six year old boy; he had three more roles in the next two years, and then one six years later, which was uncredited and that was the end of this movie career), and Isabel La Mal 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: This poster is printed on the back of a map or part of another poster! Why is this? During World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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