FALSE PRETENSES (1935) Irene Ware Framed for and similar items

Vintage original 11x14 in. U.S. lobby card from the 1930's poverty row comedy/romance, FALSE PRETENSES, released in 1935 by the Chesterfield Motion Picture Corporation and directed by Charles Lamont. A girl (Irene Ware) who's just lost her job meets a drunk millionaire (Sidney Blackmer) on a bridge who's just lost his money. They go back to his house and eventually come up with a plan to benefit them both: he'll scrounge enough money together to teach her how to be a lady and then introduce her to his rich friends so she can snag a husband, after which she'll pay him a finder's fee. The image features an interior medium shot of millionaire Kenneth Alden (Sidney Blackmer) returning a large diamond tiara to the wealthy Mrs. Smythe (Dot Farley) that was found by the police inside the bag of Mary Beekman (Irene Ware), who stands looking dazed after being framed for the theft. The colors on the lobby cards from this film are stunning and this one features beautiful vivid shades of deep blue, light purple, burgundy and light green. The Chesterfield company logo (which features a silhouette of a mid-19th century man wearing a large top hat with two motion picture film reels beneath him on either side) is depicted in the bottom right corner inside a red and yellow patterned design. This vintage original lobby card is in very fine+ condition with only a 1 in. long by 0.5 in. wide vertical area of discoloration on the center of the top border and light signs of wear on the bottom corners. There are no pinholes, tears, stains or other flaws. The amazing color tints are as fresh and vibrant as when this card was printed in 1935. Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation, generally shortened to Chesterfield Pictures, was an American film production company of the 1920's and 1930's. Its low-budget films were intended as second features which played on the lower-half of a double bill. The company was headed by George R. Batcheller and worked in tandem with its sister studio, Invincible Pictures, which was led by Maury Cohen. The company never owned its own studio and so rented studio space at a variety of other companies, including Universal Pictures and RKO. It was one of a number of Poverty Row studios taken over by Herbert Yates in 1935 and merged into his newly-formed Republic Pictures in an attempt to create a dominant low-budget producer with enough power to take on the major studios. Republic was generally successful in achieving this over the next twenty years.