eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7m253 MASKED BRIDE WC '25 art of beautiful French jewel thief Mae Murray & Francis X. Bushman! Date Sold 1/12/2012Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) The Masked Bride, the 1925 Christy Cabanne & Josef von Sternberg silent romantic love triangle jewel thief crime melodrama (about a rich American millionaire doing research for a book on French crime, and he meets a beautiful dancer who is also a thief, and he interviews her and falls in love with her, but her ex-boyfriend threatens to kill the American if she doesn't steal a valuable necklace from him, but everything works out in the end!) starring Mae Murray, Francis X. Bushman, Roy D'Arcy, Basil Rathbone (in one of his earliest roles!), Pauline Neff, and Chester Conklin. Note that Josef von Sternberg had directed his first movie just prior to this, and he helped direct this movie, but he was uncredited on the final print! 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. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The card had pinholes, creases, tears, and some areas of paper loss around the edges of the card and many smudges and creases scattered in the top of the image (more so in the top orange background area, but some scattered throughout the card (some of this may have been a printing defect). Overall, the card was in good condition prior to paperbacking. The card was well backed by a talented restorer, who did not touch up many of the faint smudges and scuffs (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the card a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the smudges and scuffs are all that distracting, and they help establish that this is a genuine 86 year-old original window card!). Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this window card that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if another example of this card exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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