Old Hollywood Movie Advertising Token - " Gold Diggers Of 1933 "
Item History & Price
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PLEASE CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS - THIS IS JUST ONE OF 10HOLLYWOOD/SOCAL AND OTHER TOKENS BEING LISTED, AND MORE WILL BE LISTED AFTERTHESE SALES Obverse: WARNER / BROS. (at left) / (three scantly clad chorus girls) / "GOLD / DIGGERS / OF / 1933" (at right) Reverse: WARNER BROS. / SUPER MUSICAL HIT / "GOLD DIGGERS / OF 1933" / GRANADA / THEATRE Brass. About 30mm in diameter. Catalog number: Kappen - Los Angeles, CA K-169 Apparently the Los Angeles G...ranada Theater was known as the Owl Theater in 1933. It didn't become the Granada until around 1935 when it shows up in the city directory under that name. There are Granada Theaters all over the country but this token has been re-attributed to the Granada Theatre in The Dalles, Oregon on the Richard Greever's online token database. Excerpts from Wikipedia: "Gold Diggers of 1933" is a pre-code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Warren Williams, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers. The story is based on the play "The Gold Diggers" by Avery Hopwood, which ran for 282 performances on Broadway in 1919 and 1920.The play was made into a silent film in 1923 by David Belasco, the producer of the Broadway play, as "The Gold Diggers", and again as a talkie in 1929. That film, "Gold Diggers of Broadway", was the biggest box office hit of that year, and "Gold Diggers of 1933" was one of the top-grossing films of 1933.In 2003, "Gold Diggers of 1933" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".This is a wonderful example of this token. Very high grade and very attractive. A few spots, but much nicer than most I've seen. Anyone collecting movie memorabilia should have at least one example of this early type of movie advertising in their collection. My father, who is a retired coin dealer, has for years beensending me old tokens and medals from Hollywood and the Los Angeles area as heran across them. He figured that they would be of more interest to people in myarea than in Oregon where he currently resides. It is now time for me to partwith some of these interesting and historic items. Some of them picture moviestars of bygone days. Others are vintage "movie money" used by theproduction companies to represent coins in their movies, and still others areadvertising or employee tokens used at Paramount and other famous studios. Afew of the tokens are from businesses that operated in the Los Angeles areafrom the early 1900s to the 1960s. He also has a passion for other interestingU.S. and world tokens and medals issued before 1900 so some of my listings mayinclude a few of those items. I'll be starting my auctions at the price my father paid for themyears ago, and let the market take them where it will. All items are guaranteed genuine, unless otherwise stated. Youwill receive the exact item(s) pictured on my auction. Actual color of theitem(s) being auctioned is often a little different from the color on mypictures. Some items just don't photograph as well as others--in this case, the second set of pictures have been adjusted to decrease glare and the color is off. Since I amnot a coin dealer, I will not attempt to grade the item(s). I've tried to makethe pictures as clear as possible so you may use them to determine the gradefor yourself. Obvious damage will be noted, but minor marks and wear due to agewill not. Please contact me with your questions before bidding. I do combine shipping for auctions won within a three day period. Pleasecontact me if you intend to bid on auctions closing on different days. Itemswon will usually be mailed housed in my father's original package unless thepackage has been damaged. I would love to see these items go to a new homewhere there is the same appreciation for their historic significance as myfather and I have had for them. Mailing via first class USPS envelope inside a firm cardstocksleeve. Undercurrent Post Office slowdowns, other mailing options are available and otherscan be requested.
