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WONDER BAR (1934) Window card poster
by Warner Brothers
- Used
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
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West Hollywood, California, United States
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About This Item
No binding. Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 14 x 22" (35 x 56 cm.) window card poster, USA. Al Jolson, Kay Francis, Dolores del Río, Ricardo Cortez, Dick Powell, Guy Kibee, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Louise Fazenda, dir: Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley; Warner Brothers. Paper-backed, there has been some skillful but routine touch up to bottom margin and in the area of a couple of the small images of stars, near very good.
Wonder Bar is the Paris entertainment bar owned by Al Wonder, and he welcomes the audience in (on camera and in the cinema audience) to his establishment with a song "Vive La France". This performance (at Jolson's insistence) would be one of the last to be done live on camera (with the Warner Brothers orchestra live on set portraying the club's band).
The story involved a tragic love triangle which ended in murder -- a more lively script than standard musical faire of the day; still, it was Busby Berkeley's wildly staged and edited production numbers which to this day are memorable. This included the number "Don't Say Good-Night". Released just prior to the code enforcement, the film is full of illicit sex relationships, homosexual references and getting away with murder. Today audiences may cringe at the now-politically incorrect production number "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule", which featured the Hall Johnson Choir.
Witty and naughty, audiences loved it and it made a nice profit for Warner Brothers.
Wonder Bar is the Paris entertainment bar owned by Al Wonder, and he welcomes the audience in (on camera and in the cinema audience) to his establishment with a song "Vive La France". This performance (at Jolson's insistence) would be one of the last to be done live on camera (with the Warner Brothers orchestra live on set portraying the club's band).
The story involved a tragic love triangle which ended in murder -- a more lively script than standard musical faire of the day; still, it was Busby Berkeley's wildly staged and edited production numbers which to this day are memorable. This included the number "Don't Say Good-Night". Released just prior to the code enforcement, the film is full of illicit sex relationships, homosexual references and getting away with murder. Today audiences may cringe at the now-politically incorrect production number "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule", which featured the Hall Johnson Choir.
Witty and naughty, audiences loved it and it made a nice profit for Warner Brothers.
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Details
- Seller
- Walter Reuben, Inc. / WalterFilm
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- WALTER-FILM000179
- Title
- WONDER BAR (1934) Window card poster
- Author
- Warner Brothers
- Format/Binding
- No binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Warner Brothers
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1934
- Size
- 14 x 22" (35 x 56 cm.)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Posters > DECADE OF RELEASE > 1930-1939, DECADE OF RELEASE > 1930-1939, Posters > DATE ADDED > Before 2012, DATE ADDED > Before 2012, FILM CATEGORY > Musical Dance, Posters > FILM CATEGORY > Musical-Dance, Posters > COUNTRY OF ORIGIN > USA, COUNTRY OF ORI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Posters; Musical, Dance;
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Walter Reuben, Inc. / WalterFilm
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About the Seller
Walter Reuben, Inc. / WalterFilm
Biblio member since 2020
West Hollywood, California
About Walter Reuben, Inc. / WalterFilm
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