Original MGM Midget Window Card (8×11) for the Jack Conway romantic comedy, LIBELED LADY (1936) starring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Spencer Tracy. Tracy plays a newspaper editor whose own wedding plans have to be interrupted when his newspaper runs a libelous story about the daughter of one of his competitors. The daughter (Loy) slaps a $5 million lawsuit against Tracy’s newspaper. Tracey tries to get Powell to charm Loy into an “indelicate situation.” Powell and Loy get tons of sparkling dialogue and witty repartee, and their on-screen chemistry is legendary (they made 14 films together). The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. This original midget window card is in very fine condition, with only one half-inch chip missing in the lower right hand corner.

Original MGM insert poster (14×36) for the W.S. Van Dyke excellent crime drama, MANHATTAN MELODRAMA (1934) starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy in her first significant role. This was the first of 14 pairings of Powell and Loy, and the new partnership saved Powell’s career by making him a superstar all over again. Gable, who was the king of MGM at this time, gives a memorable performance as the tough, callous, and fatalistic gangster whose only soft spot is for his boyhood friend, Powell. Loy plays Gable’s girlfriend, who is educated, refined, and witty—but not very impressed with Gable’s gangster ways. Powell effectively prosecutes his boyhood friend for murder, is elected governor, and then offers to commute Gable’s death sentence. But Gable refuses clemency and swaggers to the electric chair. MANHATTAN MELODRAMA was the film that gangster John Dillinger immediately previous to being gunned down by federal agents in front of Chicago’s Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934. He was set up by Anna Sage, the madam of a popular brothel, who told the FBI that she would be wearing red, thus being dubbed “The Woman in Red.” This poster was featured prominently in the climactic scene of Michael Mann’s 2009 film PUBLIC ENEMIES. This original insert poster of this historic film is in very fine plus condition. There is some writing on the reverse side of the poster, but the overall condition is really quite great. RARE.