Original MGM Insert Poster (14×36) for the Richard Thorpe comedy/drama, THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS (1938) starring Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, and Binnie Barnes. This film is part comedy and part drama about a seemingly happily married couple (Montgomery and Bruce), who separate over the wife not wanting to give up her successful career. But in the end, a baby brings them back together again. This original insert poster was never folded and is in fine plus condition, with only a small tear in the top left hand corner and minor tears around the border area, all having bee repaired with archival tissue.

Original First National Pictures Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the Busby Berkeley musical comedy, STAGE STRUCK (1936)—starring Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, and Warren William. Following the pattern of their earlier musical hits, in this film Broadway director George (Powell) has to stage a show starring a wealthy but untalented performer (think Paris Hilton in 1936) named Peggy (Blondell), who is starring only because she is backing the show. Berkeley directed the film while also going through a trial for manslaughter resulting from driving while drunk. Despite the fact that Berkeley was known for his outrageous and surreal production numbers, a tight budget precluded any of these signature extravaganzas. This original scene lobby card is in very fine plus condition.

Original Paramount Pictures Lobby Card (11×14) for the Cecil B. DeMille historical epic, CLEOPATRA (1934) starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, and Henry Wilcoxon. This film has all the DeMille staples of a great epic—unmitigated opulence, cruel barbarity, shocking decadence and a knowing wit that makes it enormously enjoyable. Claudette Colbert, who was more at home in romantic comedies, delivers a stunning performance as the deadly and fascinating queen of Egypt. The outrageous scene aboard her barge was sneaked in right before the Production Code began to be enforced, which would have censored this and many other “immoral” scenes in the film. This original lobby card of Colbert as the wily queen is in very fine condition for its age, with only some minor pinholes mostly in the borders and some very minor surface wear. Very Fine. A beautiful card indeed.

Original First National Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the depression-era, department store drama, EMPLOYEE’S ENTRANCE (1933) directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Warren William, Loretta Young, and Wallace Ford. 12,000 workers pass through the “employee’s entrance” of New York’s Franklin Monroe & Co department store in 1933, but the firm’s financial condition is going down fast. William is an amoral, conniving, tyrannical manager, and Loretta Young (at age 20) is a new sales girl who sleeps with William in order to get her job. Ford is a rising star in the store and secretly married to Young. But even though William is a tyrant, he also struggles to avoid laying off thousands of employees in a fight to the death with the bankers. The screenplay is well written, fast paced, and witty. This was a “pre-code” film and seems quite risque for the time. This era of social frankness would not reemerge until the counter-culture of the 1960′s. This original one sheet poster is linen-backed and in fine plus condition. The colors are vivid, and there is no missing paper. There is some minimal repair to fold separations. A truly stunning “pre-code” poster.