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long shot radio ID from an old movie
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This is a long, long shot post, but in the 1926 silent film with the British comedienne Beatrice Lillie, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Smiling ,
Lillie puts on a vamp costume to help out her love interest with a wealthy man. At the end of the scene with the wealthy man, she does a bit of a dance/pratfall in a foyer with a table behind her. On the table is a table radio of squarish design with decorative metal on both sides and metal knob surrounds. In shape, the radio vaguely resembles this one, but with the decorative front I've described. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Emerson-Antique-...2c8653530f

I wonder if anyone has an idea who might have manufactured a "cigar box" shaped radio with all of the metal decorations I've described around the time Lillie's movie was made? I realize it would help to have a photo of the actual radio, but if you've seen the movie (pretty good considering she only made a few), you would remember the radio, and the film still shots I've been able to find don't show the radio although some do have her vamp costume.

Like I say: it is a long, long shot that anyone would have seen that radio, but I thought I would ask. The only people who could possibly ID it for me would be those who saw the film and noticed the radio. AMC recently had it on.

Charlie in San Antonio




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