Year of Ann Dvorak: Day 97

I am not exactly sure what the deal with jumbo lobby cards are. Unlike the standard 11″x14″ lobby cards, which were issued for all movies, jumbo lobby cards were created for select films and printed at 14″x17″ on a linen stock. In all my years of collecting, I have not come across too many jumbo lobby cards in general, so it’s rather amazing that I own three with Ann Dvorak. Two of them are from the 1935 20th Century feature Thanks a Million and the other is this one from Paramount’s The Way to Love. Both these titles were loan outs for Ann, and come to think of it, I can’t recall ever having seen a jumbo lobby card for a Warner Bros. film. Does anyone know if Warner put these out for any of their films? What I wouldn’t give for a Three on a Match jumbo lobby card, though I seriously doubt they were ever produced.

The Way to Love is not one of Ann’s best movies, but this card is so beautiful that it’s a favorite piece in my collection and occupies precious space on a wall at home. However, I’d probably take it down and replace it in a second if one of a coked-up Ann in Three on a Match ever showed up.