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Auction History Result 3c364 BIG TIME LC '29 Lee Tracy & sexy Mae Clarke standing outside theater stage entrance! Date Sold 12/15/2016 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) Big Time, the 1929 Kenneth Hawks New York City Broadway theater stage acting Hollywood movie romantic love triangle musical melodrama ("All talking Fox Movietone drama of back stage life and in Hollywood studios."; about a male Broadway dancer and his actress girlfriend; they become a team and hit the "big time", and they go to Hollywood, where the man falls for a beautiful star, and that breaks up their team, and his career goes straight downhill, and he ends up as a Hollywood extra) starring Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, Daphne Pollard, Josephine Dunn, Stepin Fetchit (one of the first black African American actors to achieve success in mainstream sound movies; unfortunately often the only roles he was offered was playing servants or other stereotypes), and John Ford (in a cameo role, playing himself!). Note that director Kenneth Hawks was a World War I veteran and graduated from Yale, and he seemed to have an incredibly bright future when he was signed to director for Fox Films, three years after his brother Howard started directing. He married Mary Astor in 1928, and he directed this movie and two others, but on January 2, 1930, he was killed in a plane crash during the filming of his last movie, and that left Mary Astor a widow, and the studio completed that movie and released it two months after his passing. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that William Fox was the last believer in silent movies (he thought talkies were a "fad"), and he kept making silent movies well into 1929. This movie has lobby cards that were printed in two way: one with a blank area under the title, and the other with "All talking Fox Movietone drama of back stage life and in Hollywood studios." in that blank area. That leads us to believe that either the movie was released both as a sound movie and a silent movie, or perhaps that it was originally created silent and then sound was added. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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: very good to fine. There is a tiny pinhole in each corner and tiny diagonal creases in the bottom right corner. Otherwise, the card is in nice condition. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades 
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