Rare Film Posters

CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE

£160.00

Original 9 3/4 inch x 7 3/4 inch Still of TOMMY TRINDER as famous music hall performer George Leybourne, EDDIE PHILLIPS as Tom Sayers and LESLIE CLARKE as Fred Sanders in the 1944 Alberto Cavalcanti Ealing Studios Music Hall Comedy CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE.

Eddie Phillips was a professional boxer who beat Tommy Farr for the British Lightheavyweight Championship in 1935, but lost the title in 1938

Victorian comedy set in the music halls of the day, recalling the rivalries of the singers George Leybourne and the Great Vance, and their united front against the theatre owners who are trying to close them down.

The still, from the original key book, is in very good with minor surface marks

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