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Auction History Result 5s0169 SHOW BOAT 5 LCs 1929 Laura La Plante, Schildkraut, Ferber, Hammerstein & Kern, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 5 Original Vintage Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Edna Ferber's Show Boat, the 1929 Harry A. Pollard epic romantic riverboat musical ("Carl Laemmle has the honor to present Universal's Motion Picture triumph"; "Carl Laemmle's Universal motion picture triumph!"; "The greatest show in theatrical history"; "Combined with the musical hits from the Ziegfeld stage production by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd"; "See and hear the original Ziegfeld stars"; "from the novel by Edna Ferber"; "From the stage play by Ziegfeld"; produced by Carl Laemmle; written by Oscar Hammerstein II, with music by Hammerstein and Jerome Kern) starring Laura La Plante (as Magnolia), Joseph Schildkraut, Otis Harlan, Alma Rubens, Emily Fitzroy, Jane La Verne, Helen Morgan, Jules Bledsoe, Tess Gardella (billed as "Aunt Jemima"), Stepin Fetchit, and the Plantation Singers (billed as "with the 'Plantation Singers' singing the songs that made them famous"). Note that this film was originally made as a silent film, but some hasty re-shoots and an added prologue were included in a part-talkie part-singing version that was released at the same time, but most of the talking and singing parts have been lost (but hopefully someone will rediscover them someday). Universal remade the movie in 1936, and that includes Paul Robeson singing "Ol' Man River", and it was remade again in 1951, but it is unlikely to ever be remade again, due to the unfortunate stereotypes of black African Americans presented in the movie (but which were accurate to how African Americans were treated at the time). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that posters and lobby cards from this movie are incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned two one-sheets and a window card (and NO other posters or lobby cards) from this movie until we received this group of 5 lobby cards! Condition: good to very good. One of the cards has some stains and smudges scattered in the right of the image and another has the same in the bottom of the image, and those are only in "good" condition. The card with the close up of Schildkraut and La Plante has tears and stains around the edges and paper loss in the top corners, and someone did amateur repair to that card with tape on the back, and that one is in "good" condition. One of the other cards has pinholes and a few stains around the edges and is in "good to very good" condition. One card only has a very few pinholes and stains and is in "very good" condition. See our super-sized images of the cards to get a good sense of their overall condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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