Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
ILLUSTRATIONS BY COVARRUBIAS(FILM.) Hallelujah. Program for the film directed by King Vidor, with color cover and sepia illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. 4to, original wrappers. New York, (1929)

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Hallelujah was the second all Black cast musical produced in Hollywood. King Vidor had intended to have Paul Robeson as the male lead, but he was unavailable. Daniel Haynes, an understudy in Showboat, was chosen instead.<