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Auction History Result 8j627 MARIE PREVOST 8x10 still '30s wonderful head & shoulders portrait of the pretty star! Date Sold 2/21/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Marie Prevost was a Mack Sennett "Bathing Beauty" in 1917 while still a teenager, and she became a star in the early 1920s, and was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924), and Kiss Me Again (1925). But with the advent of sound, her career started downhill, and she began drinking heavily and binge eating, which did not help her career any. In 1937 her body was discovered, and it is believe she died from acute alcoholism, and her pet dog at that time, a dachshund, was with her. She was 38 years old, and would just be one of hundreds of forgotten Hollywood celebrities who had meteoric rises and falls except that Kenneth Anger in his book Hollywood Babylon chose to include the false story of her having been found half-eaten by her dachshund (clearly Anger subscribed to the Liberty Valance school of journalism: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend", and of course such tawdry stories sell millions of books). Important Added Info: Note that this is one of a large collection of 1930s MGM portraits that we were consigned. Almost all of them are in wonderful condition, and we have seen very few of them before! All of them are offered in separate auctions. This is a rare opportunity to get one or many of these wonderful portraits! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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