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Auction History Result 5r865 STUDY IN SCARLET LC 1933 Anna May Wong & Komai at murder scene, Sherlock Holmes, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/12/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) A Study in Scarlet, the 1933 Edwin L. Marin detective crime murder mystery thriller ("A Sherlock Holmes adventure by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle") starring Reginald Owen (as Sherlock Holmes), Anna May Wong, June Clyde, Alan Dinehart, John Warburton, Alan Mowbray (as Lestrade), Warburton Gamble (as Dr. Watson), and Tetsu Komai. Note that this is an unusual Sherlock Holmes movie, in several respects. A year earlier, Fox had made a "Sherlock Holmes" movie with Clive Brook in the title role and Reginald Owen played Watson, and in this movie, made by World Wide Pictures, but distributed by Fox, Owen now played Holmes! In addition, the Arthur Conan Doyle estate demanded a very high price for the studio to adapt this story, but charged a much lower price to just use the title and the characters, so the studio went with the lower price, and hired Robert Florey (who had written the screenplay for Frankenstein two years earlier) to write an entirely new plot. What he came up with was an initial opening sequence in which Dr. Watson "introduces" his friend Sherlock Holmes and explains all about him, followed by a story where characters are killed one by one, which he "borrowed" from Stanislas-Andre Steeman's 1931 detective novel "Six Hommes Morts", and which Agatha Christie again "borrowed" in 1939 for her classic "Ten Little Indians"! Finally, note that Anna May Wong, one of the first great Asian female actresses of early sound movies had a significant role in this movie, and she is pictured on the advertising! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1933 U.S. movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single U.S. movie paper item from this movie until we received this lobby card! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. The card had paper loss in the center of the top blank border, with a 3" tear below it, extending into the man's hair. It had a 2" tear and a 3" tear in the right of the bottom border. It had pinholes and some small tears around the edges, with tiny paper loss in the blank corners. A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then performed excellent restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still exactly looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. You can see slight signs of the restoration, but the card displays well. Learn More about condition grades 
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