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Auction History Result 3j0367 MERRY WIDOW candid 8x10 still 1925 director Erich von Stroheim drills extras as soldiers! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Von Stroheim's The Merry Widow, the 1925 Erich von Stroheim silent romantic love triangle European royalty epic ("Let joy be unconfined"; "From the famous Henry W. Savage stage success by Franz Lehar, Victor Leon and Walter Stein"; about a pretty showgirl who travels to a mythical European country, and both the Crown Prince and another nobleman fall in love with her, but the king won't let either of them marry her, so she marries the richest man in the country; he dies on their wedding night in the throes of passion, and she goes back to Paris, after inheriting a fortune, and she throws lavish parties and is known as "The Merry Widow"; many more events happen before she is ultimately united with her true love) starring Mae Murray (in the title role "as the Widow"), John Gilbert ("as the Prince"), Roy D'Arcy, George Fawcett, Tully Marshall, Sally O'Hara, Josephine Crowell, and Clark Gable (as one of the ballroom dancers; in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"). Note that this movie was remade in 1952 starring Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this great candid shows how fanatical Erich von Stroheim was! Here he is "drilling" extras so that they will appear completely authentic as Austrian soldiers! Condition: very good. There are a few tiny creases scattered around the edges and there was tiny paper loss in the top right blank corner and someone taped a piece of another still to the back of that area. Note that the still is rippled in the middle right (because of the snipe glued to the back) and that causes it to not lay completely flat. This causes "distortion" in our image because it does not lay completely flat in our scanner, but this distortion is solely in our digital image, and NOT in the still itself. Other than the above minor defects, which mostly only affect blank white border areas, the still is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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