Another great item I spotted last week while out on my rockin' road trip was this incredible Garrick Theater flyer for the WW1 aviation film, Hell's Angels from 1930. Directed by Howard Hughes and James Whale, and starring platinum screen superstar, Jean Harlow in her first credited major feature film role, this appears to be an original 30's ''last days run" theatrical herald, mounted and shellacked on a piece of antique wood. Super pricy, unfortunately, but convinced me enough to re-watch this bombers 'n bombshell blockbuster again as soon as I returned home from my trip. A true motion picture classic, --and be sure to click the Wiki link above to read about some of the more fascinating (and deadly) details surrounding the film's production.
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Thats a neat bit of cinema ephemera.
20¢ for a movie ticket back then, with inflation it would be $4 today- but factoring in 1930 was during the Great Depression, I have a feeling some of the movie goers had a tough time scaping up the money to see the film before the last day.
On the upper left corner, it lists the theater's phone number as only four digits, it reminded me of the Niederfeld thermometer (Mar 28, 2026) which only had three digits on it. I guess back then Ma Bell relied on local phone exchanges for calls to go through locally.
Yeah, an excellent movie and a pretty thrilling poster too. I love the color hold on Harlow's frilly underthings. I'm always sad to see anything like that permanently fixed to some surface, though. Still looks great, I have to admit.
You can see why Ben Lyon might be smiling. Terrific!
I like the look on Harlow, it's one of those old style Hollywood 10 mile death stares, and the red dress is a great effect that just pops. Really neat poster!
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