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Auction History Result 3f1353 CONFESSION 31 8x10 stills 1937 many great images of Basil Rathbone, gorgeous Kay Francis! Date Sold 11/22/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 31 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) Confession, the 1937 Joe May older-man-seduces-young-girl-and-years-later-she-kills-him melodrama (about a pretty teen music student, who is seduced by a famous concert pianist, but he makes the mistake of taking her to a club where an earlier conquest of his has now been reduced to being a sleazy lounge singer, and when the older woman sees him with a would-be new conquest, she shoots and kills him and is put on trial for murder!) starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone, Jane Bryan, Donald Crisp, Veda Ann Borg, Ben Welden, and Mary Maguire. Note that this movie has a fascinating origin! It was inspired by a real life 1930 murder case in Europe. In 1931, it was adapted into the American movie, "Millie", starring Helen Twelvetrees, but even in that pre-Code time, the details of the case had to be altered. In 1935, producers Arnold Pressburger and Gregor Rabinovitch decided to make a German version called "Mazurka", and they hired Pola Negri to come over from the U.S., where her career was winding down. The movie ran into trouble, probably partially because Pressburger and Rabinovitch were "not Aryan" (they would soon both leave Germany), and partially because it was rumored that Negri had had an affair with Hitler, and Goebbels was afraid her making a movie in Germany could cause a scandal, but the movie WAS made, and everyone agreed it was excellent. Warner Bros. liked the movie so much that they bought the rights to it, intending to have Bette Davis star in this American version of it, but it ended up starring Kay Francis, and it was originally called "One Hour of Romance", before they settled on this title, and released it in 1937. It was almost a scene-by-scene remake of this original German version, and Warner Bros. bought the American rights to the German movie and did not allow it to be shown in the U.S., for fear that it would hurt this movie. To this day, "Mazurka" can only be seen in unsubtitled prints (and of course, it would be great to have a modern remake of it)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: One of the stills (the one with Basil Rathbone between Mary Maguire and Jane Bryan) is a deluxe still. There are six of the stills that are "Other Company" stills and those have a credit block at the bottom that does not include First National. This is a rare opportunity to obtain a large number of extremely rare 1937 first release stills from this Kay Francis movie, all at one time. Condition: good to very good. Some of the stills have changed to a sepia color, and a few of those have changed somewhat unevenly. Some of the stills have small pieces of paper tape on the back of one or more corners. Please see our Supersize images of all of the stills to get a good sense of which ones have changed color, and in what way. Some have some fairly minor border wear. Learn More about condition grades 
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