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Auction History Result 6d388 SALLY OF THE SAWDUST/GOLD RUSH herald '25 showing at one theater during one week, cool art! Date Sold 4/10/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 5 1/2" x 8" [14 x 20 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) the 1925 local theater herald giving the two movies they were showing the week of November 1st, and what a pair of movies they were! There was Sally of the Sawdust, the 1925 D.W. Griffith silent circus comedy ("Adapted by Forrest Halsey from a story by Dorthy Donnelly"; about a sleazy carnival sideshow performer who takes in a young girl and treats her like his daughter, but also has her helping him in his act; he learns that her grandparents are still alive, and they are wealthy, and he tries to figure out a way to reunite them where he will make money; things backfire when she is arrested, but the judge turns out to be her own grandfather, and once that is explained to the judge, he forgives her and even helps the sideshow man who was so kind to her) starring W.C. Fields (as Professor Eustace McGargle), Carol Dempster, Alfred Lunt, Erville Alderson, Effie Shannon, and Charles Hammond. Note that this movie represents the joining together of two of the greatest legends of American cinema, director D.W. Griffith and star W.C. Fields! Also note that W.C. Fields re-made this silent movie into one of his classic sound comedies, "Poppy" AND The Gold Rush, the classic 1925 Charles Chaplin Alaska Yukon rags-to-riches slapstick silent comedy ("A Dramatic Comedy"; "Written and Directed [and scored] by Charlie Chaplin") starring Charlie Chaplin (Charles Chaplin), Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Georgia Hale, and Henry Bergman. Note that this was the movie with the classic sequence of the snowbound Chaplin eating his shoe! Also note that the movie was filmed "on location", but only for a small part of the movie did they go to the High Sierras. For the close scenes, Chaplin had artificial mountains created out of chicken wire and burlap covering 200 tons of plaster, 285 tons of salt, and 100 barrels of flour, and the artificial ice and snow was made of the same materials. 4 carloads of "cornfetti" were used for the blizzard scenes. They also transported much of the same material to the Sierra mountains to enhance the scenes shot there. The entire production took over a year, from first filming to final cut! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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