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Montana Moon, Lobby Card

A cowboy holds a girl under a moon.

What

A 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lobby card for Montana Moon, a pre-Code Western musical directed by Malcolm St. Clair.

Why

Wikipedia credits it with bringing the singing cowboy to the screen, in a story of a city girl and a rural cowboy with Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown.

Notice

A huge pale pink moon sits behind the cast list, with purple mountains drawn along the lower edge.

“A singing cowboy, 1930”

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 18x24" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Montana Moon (1930), dir. Malcolm St. Clair
Country / studio
United States · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Format
Lobby card
Poster published
U.S. lobby card, in colour, 1930
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.

The same film, another screen

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