THE TOAST OF NEW YORK CARY GRANT FRANCES FARMER ORIGINAL 1937 ADS POSTERS

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THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, 1937, 2 SIDED CENTERFOLD ADVERTISEMENT LOBBY CARD STYLE POSTER, FROM A FILM INDUSTRY TRADE PUBLICATION SENT TO THEATER OWNERS, LITHOGRAPH ON HEAVY STOCK PAPER, OF THE FILM, "THE TOAST OF NEW YORK", STARRING EDWARD ARNOLD, CARY GRANT, FRANCES FARMER, AND JACK OAKIE. 12" X 18.5", IN VERY GOOD CONDITION, WITH 3 SETS OF MINOR STAPLE HOLES AT THE CENTER FOLD.
ALSO INCLUDED IS AN ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENT OF THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THIS FILM TO BE SHOWN AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, JULY 22, 1937. 9.25" X 12", IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. SEE PHOTOS.
The Toast of New York
is a 1937 American biopic
directed by Rowland V. Lee
and starring Edward Arnold, Cary Grant, Frances Farmer, and Jack Oakie
. The film is a fictionalized account of the lives of financiers James Fisk and Edward S. Stokes
.
The screenplay
was based on the book
The Book of Daniel Drew
by Bouk White
and the story "Robber Barons" by Matthew Josephson
. This is also Grant's first period film
.
Frances Elena Farmer
was an American actress and television hostess. She appeared in over a dozen feature films over the course of her career, though she garnered notoriety for the various sensationalized accounts of her life, especially her involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals and subsequent mental health struggles.
Farmer has been the subject of various works, including two feature films and several books, many of which focus on her time spent institutionalized, during which she claimed to have been subject to various systemic abuses.