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Auction History Result 1h0980 CARMEN linen style B 1sh 1915 Cecil B. DeMille, Geraldine Farrar demands her share, rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) Carmen, the 1915 Cecil B. DeMille silent Spain war-time military doomed love romantic melodrama ("A picturization of the immortal masterpiece"; based on the novella written in 1845 by Prosper Merimee, which was adapted into an opera by Georges Bizet in 1875; about a Spanish soldier who falls under the spell of a gypsy woman and his obsession eventually leads himself to ruin) starring Geraldine Farrar (billed as "The incomparable Metropolitan Opera star"; in the title role as Carmen), Wallace Reid (as Don Jose), Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter, William Elmer, and Jeanie Macpherson. Note that while Cecil D. DeMille was making this version, Raoul Walsh was making a competing version with Theda Bara and Walsh's version was released first. Charlie Chaplin made fun of the "duelling Carmens" in his "Burlesque on Carmen", also released in 1915. There were three more silent Carmens and there have been many sound versions as well. Note also that Wallace Reid was a major star of the early 1910s, who fell in love with Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet. He married her, and they made many movies together in the middle 1910s, marrying in 1913. In 1917, Davenport had their son, and she made few movies after the birth of her son, but he remained a top star. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making a movie "The Valley of the Giants", and he was injured, and took morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a three-sheet (27 years ago for $5,980), a herald, an Italian one-sheet, and two 8x10 stills from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28" x 42" [71 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster was folded in half an extra time and it had paper loss at all the crossfolds, with some tears and paper loss along the top horizontal fold, running through the woman's face. It also had tears and paper loss scattered in parts of the poster and around the edges. Overall, the poster was in poor to fair condition prior to linenbacking. Someone many years ago mounted the poster to linen with no excess, and they performed the best restoration they could, which was not very good at all. If I owned this incredibly rare poster, I would surely have a talented professional remove it from the linen and properly re-back it. However, this would entail considerable paint restoration, so please bear all of the above in mind before bidding on this poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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