The Healer - a 1935 stone lithograph movie poster
The Healer , Monogram Pictures, Tooker Litho Co. New York, US 1-sheet, stone lithograph, 1935, 27 x 41 inches. Stone lithograph posters have a certain warmth and charm, especially those from early twentieth century printers in Europe, the Americas (North and South) and Australia. A good example is the 1-sheet poster for the 1935 Monogram Pictures release The Healer . According to the auction sale site from which the above image was obtained, the original 67 minute, black and white film is a romantic love triangle melodrama telling the story of Reginald Barker (Hershenson 2020). It was based on the novel by Robert Herrick (Herrick 1911). Barker is an idealistic young doctor who runs a sanitarium for polio victims. He gets involved with a rich young woman and, as a result, takes his mind off work and the girl who truly loves him. The film stars Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley, Mickey Rooney, Judith Allen and Robert McWade (IMDb 2020, Wikipedia 2020). The poster fe...