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Mini Lobby Card Sets & Lobby Cards (87) (8" x 10") ;
Very Fine
Goldwyn, Metro & Realart, 1920
This group of 87 mini title lobby cards and lobby cards from the Goldwyn, Metro, and Realart Studios includes the following sets from Goldwyn: "The North Wind's Malice" (1920), starring Tom Santschi, with 10 cards; "The Woman in Room 13" (1920), starring Pauline Frederick, with 10 cards; and "It's a Great Life" (1920), starring Cullen Landis, with 10 cards. Also from Goldwyn are "Dollars and Sense" (1920), co-starring Madge Kennedy and Kenneth, with 8 cards; "The Great Lover" (1920), co-starring John St. Polis and Claire Adams, with 7 cards; "The Street Called Straight" (1920), co-starring Charles Clary and Naomi Childers, with 6 cards; and 8 cards from an unidentified Goldwyn silent film.
From Metro Pictures are 7 cards from "Parlor, Bedroom & Bath" (1920), co-starring Eugene Pallette and Ruth Stonehouse, with 7 cards; and "Dangerous to Men" (1920), co-starring Viola Dana and Milton Sills, with 8 cards. The total also includes 6 cards from "Her Elopement" (1920), released by Realart Pictures and starring Wanda Hawley.
All of the lobby cards are unrestored, and the majority are in excellent condition. Some of the cards display pinholes, light stains, smudges, and signs of edge toning; one Realart card has a large corner chip. The grade shown is an average of this lot.
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was a film production company founded on November 19, 1916, by Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, who combined their names for the studio's title. The company operated until 1924 and became one of the predecessors of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after merging with two other studios.
Metro Pictures Corporation was established in February 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida, as a film distribution company by several "exchange men," operators of studio-run distribution centers that rented films to theaters. A precursor to MGM, the company produced films in New York, Los Angeles, and occasionally at leased studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey, before being purchased in 1919.
Estimate: $600 - 1,200