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Auction History Result 1j0009 WAGES OF VIRTUE 10x13 trade ad sample 1925 great art of sexy circus performer Gloria Swanson! Date Sold 1/18/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Trade Ad Sample (measures 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" [24 x 32 cm]) (Learn More) Wages of Virtue, the 1924 Allan Dwan silent romantic love triangle circus French Foreign Legion melodrama (based on the novel by Percival Wren; about a circus strongman who saves a pretty girl from drowning and she joins his sideshow, but his assistant falls for her, and the man kills his assistant and runs off with her, and joins the French Foreign Legion, and he becomes the owner of a cafe; an American falls in love with her, and when she discovers that her strongman boyfriend is going to marry a rich widow, she encourages the American; the two men have a fight and she gets in the middle of it and stabs the strongman to death, but the other Legionnaires say that he was killed by Arabs, which frees her to be with the American) starring Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Norman Trevor, Ivan Linow, and Armand Cortez. 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. Important Added Info: Note that Vincent Trotta was Paramount Pictures' chief art director in the 1920s and 1930s. While he was an accomplished artist himself, he spent much of his career supervising the art created by other artists for the posters and ads used to promote Paramount Pictures, including many of their most famous ones (Metropolis is one!). What is offered in this auction is a "tear sheet" of an ad that Mr. Trotta designed. He would be sent these tear sheets to make any final changes, or to approve them as printed. Tear sheets from pre-World War II movies are extremely rare. Our consignor obtained this trade ad sample (and four other trade ad samples and five tear sheets, which are similar) at one time when he purchased a collection. In addition to these ten items, there were two receipts, one from Warner's Features to Mr. Trotta and one from Famous Players-Lasky to Mr. Trotta, and our consignor asked us to picture these two items on the auction for the Metropolis tear sheet. We will be returning the letters to the consignor, but he wanted bidders to see them to make it clear that these ten items came directly from Mr. Trotta's estate. Condition: very good. Someone wrote "Trotta Art Dept" in the upper left, which we don't consider a defect, but we will leave that to the bidders to decide. Otherwise, the sample is in nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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