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Auction History Result 6a0032 HOODLUM 1/2sh 1919 Mary Pickford lives with poor & robs her rich grandfather, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/4/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) The Hoolum, the 1919 Sidney Franklin silent New York City family relationship crime comedy ("adapted from 'Burkses Amy' from Julie M. Lippman"; Pickford is a teen girl who lives with her very rich grandfather, but hates that life, and instead chooses to live with her father, a sociologist, who is living in a slum building in the Lower East Side, to study the people there, and she learns that living with poor people can be very entertaining as she learns to shoot craps, dance the shimmy, and commit petty crimes that cause her to be chased by the police; later she discovers that her grandfather wronged a local man and she disguises herself as a boy as she often does in her movies, and she breaks into her grandfather's house and robs his safe, and she is caught by the police, but everything works out, including her marrying her poor boyfriend!) starring Mary Pickford ("In her second very own picture from her own studios"), Ralph Lewis, Kenneth Harlan, Melvin Messenger, and T.D. Crittenden 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 first release movie paper from this silent movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned two one-sheet movie posters for it (29 and 30 years ago), one lobby card (20 years ago) and only some heralds, sheet music and a glass slide until we were consigned this half-sheet poster (which shows the scene from the climax of the movie when she is caught by the police robbing her own grandfather's house!). Also note that the poster was partially folded at one time and it had tape repairs to the back of the folds. It CAN'T be sent rolled in a tube, because of the tape repairs on the back and rolling it would surely damage it, while sending it in a large flat package that measures 24" x 30" would not. So bear in mind that his poster will be sent in a very large flat package and not a tube. Note that this item needs to be shipped in an oversized flat package. Most of these items absolutely can only be sent in flat packages, and could not possibly be rolled into a tube. Some of them might SEEM like they could be rolled in a tube, like a half-sheet, but they can't. The reason these items are in this auction is specifically because they CAN'T be rolled (because rolling any of them would damage them, even if they somehow can be rolled). So please bear in mind that this item must be sent in a LARGE flat package (the size of the package will depend on the size of the item when ready for shipping), and bear this added expense in mind before placing a bid on it. IN THE CASE OF EXTREMELY LARGE FLAT ITEMS, THE SHIPPING COST WILL BE VERY HIGH, SO PLEASE DO NOT BID WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT THAT ADDED SHIPPING AMOUNT, AND INCLUDE THAT AMOUNT IN WHAT YOU BID (so if you would pay $150, but the shipping is likely $100, then only bid $50). And those who live outside the U.S. and who do not have a U.S. address to ship to SHOULD NOT BID AT ALL ON EXTREMELY LARGE FLAT ITEMS, BECAUSE THEY COST HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO SEND OUTSIDE THE U.S. Condition: good. The poster was folded down the middle and it was folded vertically an extra time, causing two more evenly spaced vertical folds. There is tiny surface paper loss on parts of those vertical folds. Someone put masking tape on the back of all four borders and on the back of two of the vertical folds and they put a piece of masking tape on the front of the center of the top border, and a piece of clear tape on the left of the top border. There is a small stain on Pickford's mouth and some stains and some uneven darkening around the edges. Obviously this extremely rare poster can be "rescued" by a talented restorer, but bear all of the above in mind before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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