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HIS DIVING BEAUTY (SEA NYMPHS) R1918 ORIGINAL 8X10 LOBBY CARD FATTY ARBUCKLE

$ 83.95

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Year: Pre-1940
  • Original/Reproduction: Original
  • Country: United States

    Description

    *FROM THE RENOWNED DWIGHT CLEVELAND ARCHIVE*
    This auction is for an original release 8"X10" mini Lobby Card for the RR1918 silent MACK SENNETT short subject HIS DIVING BEAUTY (THE SEA NYMPHS) starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
    An excellent image of Keaton and Mabel together!!
    The Sea Nymphs, the 1914 Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle silent Catalina Island swimming romantic comedy short (produced by Mack Sennett) starring Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Minta Durfee, Alice Davenport, and Charles Avery
    *Also note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them.*
    Condition: Fine to Very Fine. There are a few tiny pinholes and a small missing corner in the top left blank margin. A small bump in the bottom border. Otherwise, the card is in nice condition! This is an impossibly rare lobby card!
    GOOD LUCK TRYING TO FIND ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN BETTER CONDITION!!
    VINTAGE & UNRESTORED PAPER FOR YOUR COLLECTION!!