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Auction History Result 4h203 KOMIC FILMS linen English 30x40 '10s Fay Tincher, funniest little lady ever shewn in films! Date Sold 12/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked English Movie Poster (measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Komic Films, the circa 1910s (1914 or 1915) English stock poster promoting silent comedy short reel movies that were produced by the Komic Pictures Company starring Fay Tincher ("Come right in and see Fay Tincher - the funniest little lady in the funniest film ever shewn [sic!]"; "'Once seen never forgotten'") and featuring art of the actress wearing a striped dress with a bird on her hat! Fay Tincher is forgotten today except by major film buffs, but she was a significant star of the mid 1910s. She was a vaudeville performer who met D.W. Griffith in 1913, because she looked like Mabel Normand, and he cast her as a vamp, but soon switched her to comedies where the movies made light of her diminutive size, calling her "The Funniest Little Lady". She then worked for the Komic Pictures company in Los Angeles for part of 1914 and 1915, and then moved to other studios, forming her own company in 1918. In the 1920s, she played Min in a series of 45 Universal Pictures movies about the cartoon character "Andy Gump". In 1930, she retired, but she lived to the age of 99, passing away in 1983. This poster was made in England when she worked for Komic Pictures, which means it surely dates from 1914 or 1915, and shows that she was just as popular in England as she was in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was folded once in each direction. It had tears and tiny paper loss in the top half of the vertical foldline and someone once put some tape on the back of the tears, which slightly bled through to the front. It had some darkening and tiny paper loss around the edges and along the foldlines, but overall, it has survived in about as good condition as one could hope, given that it is just under 100 years old. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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