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Auction History Result 4r1425 FIRING LINE 2 8x10 LCs 1919 Irene Castle tells David Powell that she can never marry him! Date Sold 6/11/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Cards (Learn More) The Firing Line, the 1919 Charles Maigne silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("By Robert W. Chambers"; "The beautiful gowns and dresses worn by Irene Castle in this film are pictured and described in the July Ladies' Home Journal"; a truly wild story of a woman who gets married "in name only", for the position she will gain, but then she falls in love with another man, and her husband, seeing that she is far happier with the other man, goes to a seance and asks his dead father for advice on what to do, and the dead father tells him to commit suicide, which he does, and then his wife is free to marry the other man!) starring Irene Castle, David Powell, Gladys Coburn, Anne Cornwall, Charles Craig, and Rudolph De Cordova. Note that star Irene Castle was the wife of Vernon Castle, and together they were a legendary dance team, but she made some movie appearances without her husband. In 1949, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made a biography of them called "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle". Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: very good. Both have some border defects but given that they are over 100 years old they are otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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