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Auction History Result 6t326 CAMILLE linen French 1p 1912 Kastor art of Sarah Bernhardt as Dumas doomed heroine, ultra rare! Date Sold 6/11/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 47 1/4" x 62 3/4" [120 x 159 cm]) (Learn More) La Dame aux Camelias (released in English-speaking countries as "Camille"), the 1912 Andre Calmettes, Henri Pouctal, & Louis Mercanton French silent romantic melodrama (based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils; about the French son of a noble family who is a law student and he falls for a beautiful prostitute; she reforms for him and they live in poverty, but the young man's father feels disgraced, and he convinces the woman to give up his son, and she returns to her former life, and he, not knowing what his father did, meets her publicly and denounces her, but she does not enlighten him, and at the climax, she dies holding a gift he gave her) starring Sarah Bernhardt (in the title role as Marguerite Gauthier; one of just seven movies made by the famous French stage actress!), Lou Tellegen, Paul Capellani, Jean Chameroy, Suzanne Seylor, Henri Desfontaines, Henri Pouctal, and Pitou. Note that this classic story was made into a movie many times in the silent days, but very few posters survive from any of those versions. The most memorable versions are this one, the 1926 version starring Norma Talmadge, and the 1936 sound version starring Greta Garbo. Sarah Bernhardt was a legendary French stage actresses who was born in 1844 in Paris. The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she acted while a student in her teens, but later became the mistress of a Belgian prince, and had a child by him. The prince's family forced him to break up with Bernhardt, and she became a courtesan, and then began acting again in 1866. By the 1870s Bernhardt was France's leading actress, and toured all over Europe and in New York, earning her the nickname "The Divine Sarah". She made her first movie in 1900, and only appeared in a total of seven films. An old injury eventually forced her to have her right leg amputated in 1914, but she continued to perform until her passing in 1923 at the age of 78! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Robert Kastor Important Added Info: Note that generally French posters from before World War II are incredibly scarce, but even more scarce are French posters from the silent period! This is one of the few silent French posters we have ever auctioned. But beyond that, this is also only one of three Sarah Bernhardt posters we have ever auctioned, and one of the other posters we have auctioned was a U.S. three-sheet that we auctioned five years ago, which sold for $1,850, and the other poster was another example of this same poster, but in MUCH lesser condition ("fair"), and that auctioned for $847! This poster has been professionally linenbacked and restored, and it is, of course, in far better condition than the other example that auctioned for $847. Note that this poster ships in a very long tube (at least 33" long, but possibly 50" long or more). Therefore the shipping for this poster will be more than that for a poster that ships in a tube 32" or shorter, and possibly much more. Please bear this added shipping expense in mind before bidding on this poster. You can tell how long of a tube this poster needs to ship in by looking at the shorter dimension of its length and width and then adding 4" to that (so a 47" x 63" poster will need to ship in a 51" long tube). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered down the vertical fold and some on the other folds. It had some smudges and discoloration scattered in the light colored areas that may have been a printing defect. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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