The Half - Way Girl 1925 Lost Silent Film Vintage Color Lobby Card Doris Kenyon
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:1130662 | Modified Item: No |
| Film: The Half-Way Girl (1925) | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original First National Picture colored lobby card promoting the 1925 silent drama film The Half-Way Girl. The film stars Doris Kenyon as an actress who finds herself stranded in Singapore and finds work as a "hostess" (usually a silent film era euphemism for prostitute). Love, murder, and drama ensure. Kenyon is pictured here being limply carried up a flight of steps by a menacing yet eager looking man during a scene from the now lost film.
Lobby cards are no longer used in U.S. theaters and are rarely produced for today's films. These small movie posters (usually 11"x14" in a landscape or horizontal format printed on card stock) were generally produced in sets of eight, although the number of cards in a set can vary from as few as four to as many as 16. As the name suggests, these small movie posters were designed for display in a theater's lobby or foyer with the intention of luring patrons into the theater by showing glimpses of key scenes from the movie. A lobby card set typically consists of one Title Card (TC), a lobby card of special design usually depicting all key stars, listing credits and designed to represent the entire film rather than a single scene, and seven Scene Cards (SC), each depicting a different scene from the movie. Lobby cards made their first appearance in the early 1910s. The earliest silent-era lobby cards were often nothing more than black and white or duotone stills. These were eventually replaced by hand-tinted scenes, and by the 1920s most studios were producing full-color lobby cards.
Measures 14" x 11"
CONDITION: Fine condition with nominal, scattered printing imperfections. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
