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Auction History Result 2a0523 PARAMOUNT 2 die-cut 8x9 promo cards 1920s Louise Brooks, Bow, male & female stars, very rare! Date Sold 4/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Group of 2 Original Vintage Die-Cut Movie Studio Promo Cards (each measures 8" x 9" [20 x 23 cm]) (Learn More) Paramount is a entertainment production company from 1912 to the present. They are the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world. Paramount Pictures dates its existence from the founding of the Famous Players Film Company by Adolph Zukor. That same year, Jesse L. Lasky opened his Lasky Feature Play Company, and both companies released their films through a start-up company called Paramount Pictures Corporation (and their first movies were "released through the Paramount Program"). In 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount into the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. The new corporation absorbed other firms (such as Artcraft in 1918) and eventually was simply known as Paramount Pictures. The early history of Paramount is fascinating and filled with backstabbing, and anyone interested will be greatly rewarded by reading about it! Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one of these two promo cards, and the other we never auctioned before, so clearly both are extremely rare! One of them has seven top Paramount leading ladies (Louise Brooks, Clara Bow, Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Florence Vidor, Esther Ralston, and Lois Moran), and the other has seven top Paramount male stars (Harold Lloyd, Eddie Cantor, Richard Dix, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, Adolphe Menjou, and Fred Thomson). They may have been intended to be used as a fan by moviegoers (it looks like you could hold it at the bottom and wave it to generate air movement, but that is only a guess). Finally, note that both of these are blank on the back, so we did not picture the backs of either of them, because there is nothing to see. Condition: very good to fine. Both items are in very nice condition, with very minor wear. Learn More about condition grades 
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