Original First National Pictures Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the Marshall Neilan comedy, HER WILD OAT (1927) starring Colleen Moore, Larry Kent, Hallam Cooley, and Gwen Lee. Moore plays an orphan whose parents have left her nothing but a lunch wagon, a dog, and a lot of ambition. Basically the film is a version of the Pygmalion story of a working-class girl who is taken in hand by an officious male and taught how to impersonate a person of noble birth. No prints of the film were known to exist until an excellent print surfaced in the Czech National Archives in Prague in 2001. This original and rare scene lobby card is in fine plus condition.

Original MGM Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the Harry Beaumont war drama talkie WEST OF BROADWAY (1931)– starring John Gilbert, Madge Evans, Lois Moran, Madge Evans, and Gwen Lee. Little has ever been offered on this title. John Gilbert had been a huge silent star for MGM. His career did not flourish in the sound era. In this film he plays a World War I veteran returning home to Manhattan to find that things are not what they were before he went to war, especially with his lady. He takes refuge in the bottle, but finds this is not the way. Redemption comes in the guise of another lady. This is a theme in film that would be repeated often: THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946) for the World War II generation and COMING HOME (1978) for VIet Nam. And most recently in several films of the mideast wars. Gilbert had been a leading man and personal favorite of Greta Garbo. The conventional story is that his high pitched voice was effeminate and did not make the transition to sound well. This scenario doesn’t hold up under close examination; rather Gilbert’s own demons seemed to undermine his career. This original scene lobby card of Evans, Gilbert, and Lee is in fine plus condition.