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Laugh, Clown, Laugh, Window Card

A clown bursts through a paper hoop.

What

A 1928 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer window card for Laugh, Clown, Laugh, an American drama.

Why

Herbert Brenon directed it for producer Irving Thalberg from the 1923 Broadway play by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, with Lon Chaney and Loretta Young.

Notice

A theatre filled the top panel with its own booking: "RIALTO Theatre East Rochester MON. & TUE. AUG. 20-21".

“A small-town booking for the clown”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), dir. Herbert Brenon
Country / studio
United States · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Format
Window card
Poster published
U.S. window card, colour lithograph, 1928
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18. Star-portrait piece: sold as the artifact, the film named, the star incidental.

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