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Auction History Result 5m306 SARAH & SON herald 1930 Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, directed by Dorothy Arzner! Date Sold 4/8/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 4 3/4" x 6" [12 x 15 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Sarah and Son, the 1930 Dorothy Arzner romantic marriage melodrama ("'Doctor's Secret' 'Charming Sinners' 'Madame X' 'Laughing Lady' now- Sarah and Son"; about a woman who has a loser husband who abuses her and her child, and then kidnaps the child and literally sells him to a rich family; years later, the woman is now a famous opera singer, and she endlessly searches for her lost son!) starring Ruth Chatterton (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Sarah Storm), Fredric March, Fuller Mellish Jr., Gilbert Emery, and Dories Lloyd. Like most of director Arzner's movies, this one dealt with a very independent woman who must fend for herself, and in this case, the male lead is presented in the worst possible light! Also note that this movie was made at the time when it was fashionable to film movies in more than one language, so that the sets could be reused for the various versions, and sometimes some of the top cast were in more than one version (either they spoke the other language, or they read their lines phonetically; we have seen many films from this time that have two or three different versions, but this one has a remarkable SEVEN different versions: Toute sa vie, Hjartats rost, Il richiamo del cuore, Toda una vida, A Cancao do Berco, and Glos serca)! Also note that Dorothy Arzner was a director from the 1920s to the 1940s, and she was the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood ('20s to '40s) and she was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America. Arzner was a lesbian at a time when almost no females openly were, and she was surprisingly open about it, often dressing in "men's clothes" and wearing her hair short. She made many "women's movies" and movies with a "feminist" theme. After making "First Comes Courage" in 1943, she made training films for the U.S. Army WACs, and she never returned to making Hollywood movies, becoming a film teacher of directing and screenwriting, teaching at UCLA until her passing in 1979. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: fair. Learn More about condition grades 
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