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Auction History Result 2f0033 OMAR THE TENTMAKER style B WC 1922 G.W. Peters art of Guy Bates & Virginia Brown Faire, rare! Date Sold 6/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Omar the Tentmaker, the 1922 James Young silent Persia Middle Eastern romantic love triangle melodrama ("A Persian love romance by Richard Walton Tully author of 'The Bird of Paradise'"; "Awake, for morning in the bowl of night has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: Drives night along with them from heav'n and strikes the Sultan's temple with a shaft of light"; "Adapted by Richard Walton Tully from the stage success of the same name"; a complicated story of a student who loves a beautiful young woman, but she is taken by the "Shah of Shahs" to be one of his many wives, and she is pregnant from the student, and the Shah throws her out when she rejects him and sells her as a slave, but she gets the student to raise their baby, although he thinks the Shah is the father, and many years later, the student, now a tentmaker, is able to finally right some of the wrongs that were done) starring Guy Bates Post (in the title role as "Omar the Tentmaker"), Virginia Brown Faire, Nigel De Brulier, Noah Beery Sr. (as The Shah of Shahs), Rose Dione, and Boris Karloff. Note that Boris Karloff had a very minor role in this movie (as Imam Mowaffak), and we don't think he appears on any advertising, although he could possibly appear on a still or lobby card! Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 we have only previously auctioned two examples of the style A window card, but we have never before auctioned THIS style B window card! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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