BROKEN BLOSSOMS 1936 Emlyn Williams, Dolly Haas TRADE ADVERT

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement removed from a British Film Trade Journal for the 1936 Hans Brahm (John Brahm) Drama BROKEN BLOSSOMS, adapted from "The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke and the 1919 film by D.W. Griffith and starring Emlyn Williams, Dolly Haas, Arthur Margetson, Gibb McLaughlin, Donald Calthrop, C.V. France, Basil Radford, Gibb McLaughlin, Kathleen Harrison, Jerry Verno and Edie Martin.

A Buddhist missionary travels from China to London. He meets and falls in love with a young girl in the slums of the East End but tragedy threatens when their relationship is discovered by the girl's brutal father.

Artwork by Marc Stone (1909 - 1991). Marcus Stone was born in Marylebone, London, and educated at the Slade School of Art. In the 1930s he was designing posters for Gaumont British Film Studios including “The Ghoul” (1933), “The Camels Are Coming” (1934) , “A Fire Has Been Arranged” (1935), “Broken Blossoms” (1936) and “His Lordship” (1936). During World War II he worked for the War Office. After the war he returned to film poster work creating such posters as “The Tales of Hoffmann” (1951) for Michael Powell.
He did regular commissioned portraits of the "Man of the Week, Month, Year" for British magazine covers. In addition, he painted sports figures, jockeys in caricature style for the centre pages of a sports illustrated magazine and recruitment posters for the Armed Forces in the early 60s. Ultimately, he claimed "the camera put him out of business”.

The advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical fold.