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Auction History Result 1g027 FOLLIES GIRL English 6sh 1921 Olive Thomas hired to impersonate rich man's kin, Her Downfall! Date Sold 10/12/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1921 (from the first release of this movie in England) Vintage Theatrical Folded English Six-Sheet (called a 12sh in England) Movie Poster (6sh; measures 78" x 88" [198 x 224 cm]) (Learn More) The Follies Girl (released in England as "Her Downfall"), the 1919 John Francis Dillon silent inheritance mistaken identity romantic melodrama (about a rich old man who has only distant relatives who want to figure out how to get his inheritance; he is sick and keeps asking for his lost granddaughter, who died as a child, but he doesn't remember that, so the relatives hire a Follies Girl to impersonate the granddaughter, planning to have her inherit and then pay her off; but seeing the lost granddaughter cures the old man, so the relatives denounce her as a fake, but meanwhile, the rich man's grandson, who he had disinherited, has returned, and he falls in love with the impostor granddaughter, and they get married!) starring Olive Thomas, Wallace MacDonald, William V. Mong, Claire McDowell, and J.P. Wild. Note that Olive Thomas was the very first "flapper girl", and she led a wild life, and she was married to Jack Pickford, and she died when she was just 25, under depressing circumstances! 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 we were unable to pin down when this movie was first released in England. We saw that this movie was released in France in 1921, so it is possible this movie was not released in England in 1919, but at some point afterwards. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that this English six-sheet measures 78" x 88" [198 x 224 cm]. Also note that this English six-sheet was printed in 4 sections designed to overlap.
UPDATED 10/12/2017: A collector discovered September 1921 English newspaper ads for the film, which reinforces the theory that the movie was first released in the UK in 1921. Condition: very good. There is some darkening on the back of the part of the poster that was on the outside when it was fully folded. There are some creases and several tears along the foldlines that were on the outside when the poster was fully folded. There are some creases, smudges, and tiny tears on some foldlines, and some tiny paper loss at some crossfolds. Learn More about condition grades 
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