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Auction History Result 4f648 HELL'S ANGELS LC '30 close 3-shot portrait of Jean Harlow cheek-to-cheek with Lyon & Hall! Date Sold 3/17/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Hell's Angels, the classic 1930 Howard Hughes World War I (WWI) England Royal Flying Corps military airplane aviation pilot romantic love triangle melodrama ("Howard Hughes' Thrilling Air Spectacle"; "Howard Hughes' Amazing Air Spectacle"; "The First Multi-Million Dollar Talking Picture"; "Howard Hughes' thrilling multi-million dollar - air spectacle"; produced by Howard Hughes; about two brothers at Oxford who join the RAF when World War I starts, and they both fall for the same beautiful girl, but when they go off on a bombing mission, they return to find her with yet a third man) starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, and Douglas Gilmore. Note that filming on this movie originally started in 1927, and it was being filmed as a silent, and Greta Nissen had the lead female role. But the movie took a very long time to make, and by that point, sound had taken over Hollywood, and producer/director Howard Hughes made the unusual decision to entirely re-shoot the movie with sound. And since Greta Nissen had a strong Norwegian accent (which made no difference in silent movies, but obviously was terrible for sound), and since Jean Harlow had come along, Hughes replaced Nissen with Harlow, which was the greatest break of Harlow's career, but heartbreaking for Nissen, who continued in movies without a big break until 1937, when she retired! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we know that this is an original 1930 lobby card from this classic movie (the 1937 lobby cards look very similar, but they have much copyright information at the left, and in 1937 copyright on the right, and the 1930 cards all look just like this one on the bottom). Over the years, I have seen some unscrupulous people delete or alter the "7" from the "1937", and try to pass off a 1937 re-release card as an original! Also note that some people (including myself, years ago!) thought that all the 1930 cards had the airplane border art straight up and down, and that all the 1937 lobby cards had the airplane border art at an angle to the left, but that is not correct (both sets had some cards with one border art, and some cards with the other border art). Condition: good. There are smudges and faint stains throughout the card. There are pinholes around the edges of the card. There was paper loss in the right of the bottom border, and someone taped a piece from another card to the back of that area, and wrote in the missing letters. No one has ever done any restoration to the image area. I would think that a talented restorer could almost certainly remove much of the smudges and stains through chemical means, but I have no idea how much, and how much paint restoration the card would require, so please do not bid on this great card unless you can accept the uncertainty as to how difficult or easy it would be to restore, and how much paint restoration it would require! Learn More about condition grades 
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