Old 1933 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 12HOLLYWOOD/SOCAL AND OTHER TOKENS BEING LISTED, AND MORE WILL BE LISTED AFTERTHESE SALES Description: 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" Brass. About 30mm in diameter. Catalog number: Kappen - Hollywood, CA K-167 This token is an entirely d...ifferent variety from the other Gold Diggers of 1933 token that I have listed. This piece was produced with no theater name on the reverse and is more difficult to find than the other one. Even as spotty as it is, this is a decent example of this token. Anyone collecting movie memorabilia should have at least one example of this early type of movie advertising in their collection.
Background information: Apparently the Los Angeles (Hollywood) Granada 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". My seller info: 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 otherwisestated. You will receive the exact item(s) pictured on myauction. Actual color of the item(s) being auctioned is often alittle different from the color on my pictures. Some items just don'tphotograph as well as others. Since I am not a coin dealer, I will not attemptto grade the item(s). I've tried to make the pictures as clear as possible soyou may use them to determine the grade for yourself. Obvious damage will benoted, but minor marks and wear due to age will not. Please contact me with yourquestions before bidding. I do combine shipping for auctions won within a three day period.Please contact me if you intend to bid on auctions closing on different days.Items won will usually be mailed housed in my father's original package unlessthe package has been damaged. I would love to see these items go to a newhome where 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.Internationalbuyers: Message me after bidding to discuss shipping.On Sep-07-20 at 13:05:21 PDT, seller added the following information:UPDATE/EDIT: I inadvertently included information of the Granada Theatre in the description, but there is no theater listed on this piece so that bit of history is irrelevant to this listing. I do not want to suggest that this piece is related to that theater, which was on my previous listing and probably is the theater on my other listing of this token but has been scratched off.
Background information: Apparently the Los Angeles (Hollywood) Granada 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". My seller info: 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 otherwisestated. You will receive the exact item(s) pictured on myauction. Actual color of the item(s) being auctioned is often alittle different from the color on my pictures. Some items just don'tphotograph as well as others. Since I am not a coin dealer, I will not attemptto grade the item(s). I've tried to make the pictures as clear as possible soyou may use them to determine the grade for yourself. Obvious damage will benoted, but minor marks and wear due to age will not. Please contact me with yourquestions before bidding. I do combine shipping for auctions won within a three day period.Please contact me if you intend to bid on auctions closing on different days.Items won will usually be mailed housed in my father's original package unlessthe package has been damaged. I would love to see these items go to a newhome where 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.Internationalbuyers: Message me after bidding to discuss shipping.On Sep-07-20 at 13:05:21 PDT, seller added the following information:UPDATE/EDIT: I inadvertently included information of the Granada Theatre in the description, but there is no theater listed on this piece so that bit of history is irrelevant to this listing. I do not want to suggest that this piece is related to that theater, which was on my previous listing and probably is the theater on my other listing of this token but has been scratched off.
