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Auction History Result 5c032 HER AMERICAN HUSBAND 1sh '18 great art of Japanese woman who marries cheating rich American! Date Sold 3/9/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Her American Husband, the 1918 E. Mason Hopper silent Japan interracial romantic melodrama ("A love tragedy of Japan and America"; a really sad story of a rich American who is engaged, but he cheats on his fiancee, and she leaves him; his business takes him to Japan, where he meets a beautiful Japanese girl, whose father wants her to marry a rich westerner, and she breaks off her engagement to a Japanese man to honor her father's wishes; but after they return to America, the husband cheats on her, and her old boyfriend in Japan has a vision of how unhappy she is and he travels with her father to America, where the father kills the husband and then himself!) starring Darrell Foss, Teddy Sampson, Leota Lorraine, Kisaburo Kurihara, and Misao Seki. Note that female lead Teddy Sampson started in movies when she was 16 in 1914, and made a number of them that year and the following year, but she had fewer parts as she aged, and by the time she was 23, her career was mostly over, and she only made one more movie. It is interesting to note that when she was 16, she married 31 year-old actor Ford Sterling, and they remained married until his passing in 1939 at the age of 55, and Sampson lived until 1970! Note that, as was common in early Hollywood, non-Asian actors were hired to play Asians, and they did this through the use of "yellowface" makeup (similar to "blackface" makeup that had been used for so long). Often, this was in movies that featured "interracial romances" between Asians and westerners, and those who participated in such romances were shunned and often they led to murders or suicides. Thankfully, these sorts of movies and the practice of actors performing in "yellowface" has almost completely been abandoned! 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: Note that first release 1918 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a single half-sheet prior to being consigned this great one-sheet! Also note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]. Condition: very good. The poster almost surely originally measured 28" x 42", and at a later date, someone trimmed it to 27" x 40", no doubt so it could fit in a frame. Only blank white paper was affected. It had a tear and tiny paper loss at the right end of the bottom horizontal fold, with slight darkening in the blank border at the right ends of the top and bottom horizontal folds. It has small separation at the crossfolds. Other than the above, the poster is in really nice condition, and it is not at all fragile, really unusual for a poster that is just under a century old! Learn More about condition grades 
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