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Auction History Result 3d241 WHEN A WOMAN SINS 1/2sh '18 Theda Bara in wild story of the regeneration of a modern vampire! Date Sold 12/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) When a Woman Sins, the 1918 J. Gordon Edwards silent family relationship romantic love triangle melodrama ("The regeneration of a modern vampire"; "A Theda Bara Super Production"; "Story by Betta Breuil"; a wild story, typical of Theda Bara movies of this time; a divinity student goes home to visit his sick father, and he is cared for by a pretty young nurse; he witnesses the nurse dancing to music, which causes the old man to embrace her, whereupon he collapses and dies!; the son blames the nurse for his father's death, and she becomes a famous sexy dancer named "Poppea", and the son's cousin falls for her, and the son visits Poppea to beg her to leave his cousin alone, but the cousin sees them together and misunderstands, and then commits suicide; the son again blames her for the death, and she is even more disillusioned, and she has a party where there is an auction, and the highest bidder gets her for the night, but the son shows up with a bunch of lilies as his bid, and she accepts it, and they try to make a romance work) starring Theda Bara, Josef Swickard, Alan Roscoe, Al Fremont, and Jack Rollens. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Prior to paperbacking, the entire poster had darkened and it was never folded. It had 2" trimmed from the left and right blank borders (only blank white paper). It had some tears and tiny paper loss around the edges in the blank border, with a 2" tear near the center of the bottom blank border that entered the "H" of the tiny "THEDA" in that area. There were some scuffs in the left of the man's face. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The restorer recreated the missing portions of the blank borders at left and right but did not address the darkening (which I think was a wise idea, because it would have required much bleaching). The poster was well backed, and displays well. Learn More about condition grades 
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