Cheer Up & Smile 1930 Pre - Code Musical Vintage Lobby Card Dixie Lee, Arthur Lake
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:714427 | Modified Item: No |
| Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
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ITEM: This is a vintage and original Fox Pictures lobby card promoting the 1930 pre-code musical film Cheer Up and Smile. This color card features Dixie Lee and Arthur Lake beaming from ear-to-ear at each other while seated on a stage with musical instruments. This is a delightful piece of old Hollywood memorabilia.
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 light corner wear, toning to the paper, scattered pinholes, and storage/handling wear. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
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Dixie Lee was born on November 4, 1911 in Harriman, Tennessee, USA as Wilma Winifred Wyatt. She was an actress, known for Love in Bloom (1935), Redheads on Parade (1935) and Night Life in Reno (1931). She was married to Bing Crosby. She died on November 1, 1952 in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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His parents were circus acrobats and he became part of their act. When they changed to vaudeville and wound up in California, he got a job in the movies. The founder of Universal Pictures, Carl Laemmle changed his name to Lake. In silent films he played somewhat dimwitted youngsters, The long-running part of Dagwood in the "Blondie" series pretty much continued the the pattern into adult life. He and Penny Singleton also appeared in a half-hour "Blondie" radio series which ran from 1939 to 1950, airing on CBS, ABC and finally on NBC. The program's stylized opening line, delivered by Bill Goodwin became famous: "Uh-uh-uh. Don't touch that dial. It's time for ...[Lake:] Blond-dee".
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan
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