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Auction History Result k042 PRICE OF YOUTH English three-sheet movie poster '22 art of Neva Gerber! Date Sold 2/28/2008Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded English Three-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 39 3/4" x 77 3/4") (Learn More) The Price of Youth, the 1922 Ben F. Wilson silent New York City romantic melodrama ("A thrilling story of a girl's adventure in a Great City."; "Personally supervised by Ben Wilson"; about an orphaned young lady from the South, who goes to New York City to become a singer; she knows her mother ran away from her father with a man who was going to make a star of her, but he used her and betrayed her, and amazingly, the young lady meets the very same man, but luckily, her boyfriend, who amazingly is the son of the man comes to visit her from the South and saves her from his father and they get married!) starring Neva Gerber, Spottiswoode Aitken, Ashton Dearholt, Charles King, and Joseph W. Girard. Note that the actor named Ashton Dearholt is an interesting footnote in movie history! He made 60 movies between 1916 and 1927, starring in some, but they are almost all forgettable. Dearholt wanted to become a producer in the movie business, and he kept trying to get Burroughs to let him make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs resisted, and in 1932, he signed a deal with MGM for a major Tarzan movie, and that seemed to end Dearholt's chance of making a deal, but in 1934, Dearholt found a beautiful young blonde that he left his wife for, and Dearholt's wife found consolation in the arms of Burroughs, who married her, and took custody of Dearholt's two children! Perhaps out of guilt, Burroughs signed a deal for Dearholt to make a Tarzan movie. Burroughs' sole involvement in the movie was putting up money and selling the rights, and Dearholt went to Guatemala (on the "Ashton-Dearholt Expedition"!), but the movie had all sorts of problems (Dearholt himself played the villain, and his new young girlfriend played the lead actress), and after it was partly completed, they quit filming and left Guatemala. They returned to the U.S. and managed to create a completed film from the footage they had shot, although it was far different from the original script. The movie did surprisingly well at first, but then MGM threatened theaters that showed the movie, and it got terrible U.S. distribution, although it did well overseas. Ultimately, none of the actors or crew were paid, and Dearholt never made another movie. But he remained good friends with Burroughs until his sudden death in 1942! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: This English three-sheet was printed in 2 sections. Note that this poster will need to be sent in a very large flat package that measures approximately 22" x 32" x 1" high, so please bear the shipping costs of this very large package in mind BEFORE you place a bid! Condition: fair. At some point, the top border of the poster was trimmed off (it may have slightly extended into the image, but we don't know, because we are unlikely to ever another example of this poster!). This poster is quite fragile, and has many tears and tiny areas of paper loss on several of the foldlines, and at some point, someone took lots of conservation tape and put it on significant sections of the back of foldlines. The poster was originally completely folded, but it has sat partially folded for many years, and it is fragile enough that we would not consider completely re-folding it, and we would of course never roll it. Therefore, we will send it partially folded in a large flat package. The poster is in urgent need of expert professional restoration, but after proper restoration, it will look fantastic and there really will be not very much paint restoration needed in the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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