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Auction History Result 4493 SONS OF LIBERTY 2 lobby cards '39 Claude Rains, Sondergaard Date Sold 12/21/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (measure 11" x 14") (Learn More) Sons of Liberty, the 1939 Michael Curtiz Revolutionary War Jewish immigration historical short ("A Warner Bros. Historic Technicolor Featurette"; set during the American Revolution; about the famous real-life Jewish refugee, Haym Salomon, who flees Europe to go to the U.S.; he joins the Sons of Liberty and he then faces persecution from the British after he supplies information to General George Washington and also helps to solve the fledgling country's financial crisis) starring Claude Rains (as Haym Salomon), Gale Sondergaard, Donald Crisp, Montagu Love (as General George Washington), Henry O'Neill, and James Stephenson. Note that this film won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject [Two-Reel] in 1940. Obviously Warner Bros. made this movie in part due to the real life crisis faced by Jews in Germany at this time, to remind all Americans of the debt America owed to Jewish-Americans, dating back to the very birth of the United States! Note that it is likely that Warner Bros. solely made a one-sheet and a set of lobby cards for this movie. Many collectors have spent decades searching for ANY movie posters from this film, with no success. In 2018, we were consigned a one-sheet for this movie, and that is the only poster we have ever auctioned! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good to fine. see below for why we don't describe the defects of this item in words Learn More about condition grades 
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