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VALLEY OF THE GIANTS ('19) VALLEY OF THE GIANTS ('19) pb OR search current auctions Auction History Result 8t017 VALLEY OF THE GIANTS pressbook '19 Wallace Reid was making this when he became a drug addict! Date Sold 7/26/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 10 1/2" x 15 1/2" [27 x 39 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More) The Valley of the Giants, the 1919 James Cruze silent Northern California logging lumberjack romantic melodrama ("Down in the marvelous redwood country where giants of forest and a manhood are bred, fights red-blooded men, loves a virile woman and honors a precious memory. See it!"; based on the book "by Peter B. Kyne"; about a son of a lumberjack who owns a major logging area nicknamed "The Valley of the Giants"; the wife and mother of the men is buried there, and they swear to never sell the land, but they fall on dire times, and a competitor wants to buy the land, and the son of the lumberjack manages to not only expose the competitor as a crook and save the land, but he also marries the competitor's daughter!) starring Wallace Reid, Grace Darmond, William Brunton, Charles Ogle and Ralph Lewis. Note that Wallace Reid was a top star in the early 1910s, and he met Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet who had also made movies in the early 1910s, and they then made many movies together, marrying in 1913. In 1917, she had their son, and she made few movies after that. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making this very movie, and he was injured during a train scene, and was given morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and the next year, she made "The Red Kimono", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a remarkable group of 21 silent Paramount pressbooks that were in a bound volume. Each was carefully removed, so there is slight paper loss at the spine (and likely the other three borders were slightly trimmed to make them even, but only blank border areas were affected), and otherwise, most of the pressbooks are in really nice condition, although two have cuts, which are of course noted (and of course, the chances of finding these in any condition are very slim!). We are auctioning all 21 of these, in 21 separate auctions. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was removed from a bound volume (see above). There are smudges in the white areas of the cover. There is a faint stain in the upper right blank border of all pages. Otherwise, the pressbook is in really nice condition, and the pages are not at all fragile. Learn More about condition grades
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