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Auction History Result 6t395 BLACK LIGHTNING 8x10 still '24 Harold Austin & Thunder the Dog greet beautiful Clara Bow! Date Sold 3/23/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Black Lightning, the 1924 James P. Hogan silent canine German Shepherd dog romantic love triangle backwoods melodrama (about a wounded World War I veteran who brings home the war dog who saved his life in France, and he goes to the mountains to recover, where he meets a pretty young mountain girl, who is menaced by local toughs, but the vet and his dog rescue her) starring Clara Bow (three years before she would become the "It Girl"), Harold Austin, Eddie Phillips, Joe Butterworth, and Thunder ("The Marvel Dog"). Note that Clara Bow has an important role in this movie, but the only lobby card we have ever seen only bills Thunder the Marvel Dog, so we don't know how, if at all, she was billed on the posters. Also note that Thunder the Dog first appeared in this movie and appeared in five more movies over the next three years! If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that Clara Bow was the most famous "flapper girl" of the mid to late 1920s (she became known as "The It Girl" after the character she played based on the popular novel by Elinor Glyn). She had a major role in Wings, and was Paramount's biggest star at that time. But she had a notorious private life and seemingly "settled down" when she married cowboy star Rex Bell in 1931 (she had two children and she retired from movies), but sadly in 1949 she went into a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt (she had had psychiatric issues for quite some time) and she was released but never returned to her family, and lived alone until her death in 1965. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that not only does our current auction of 999 stills represent the absolute finest selection we have ever had in terms of quality of image and film, but it also represents the finest CONDITION group of stills we have ever had! Half of the stills are graded as being in "very good to fine" condition (which is our highest grade for vintage stills), but we were very strict on this, because otherwise, perhaps two thirds or three quarters of the stills would have received this grade! We downgraded stills to "very good" for pretty minor defects, and many of these might have received our "very good to fine" grade in the past. And the half of the stills that ARE in very good to fine condition would likely be graded "mint" by any other auction! This is the finest group of stills I have ever seen, and I can only hope to equal it someday! Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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