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Auction History Result 1d937 ROAD TO RUIN 2 LCs 1934 Devil and bad teens, modern youth burned at altar of ignorance! Date Sold 10/21/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Road to Ruin, the 1934 Dorothy Davenport & Melville Shyer bad girl teen romantic crime melodrama (about a 16-year-old girl, neglected by her parents, who starts smoking, drinking, doing drugs, and having affairs with older men, gets arrested, then finds out she's pregnant so she has to get an illegal abortion, and very sadly, whie she is recuperating, she realizes that her troubles are all her own fault, but then she dies!) starring Helen Foster, Nell O'Day, Glen Boles, Robert Quirk (billed as "Bobby Quirk"), and Paul Page. Note that this was a remake of the 1928 silent movie of the same name, which also starred Helen Foster. Note that our research seems to show that one of the differences between this movie and the silent version is that addition of the use of drugs to this version, which is not surprising, given that co-director Dorothy Davenport was the widow of silent star Wallace Reid, who died of a drug overdose. After this death, his widow spent much of the next decades crusading against the abuse of drugs, with movies like "Human Wreckage". Finally, note that co-director Melville Shyer is the father of noted film director Charles Shyer, who has directed many popular films from the 1970s on, including "Father of the Bride", "Private Benjamin", and many others! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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