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Auction History Result

2w236 THIEF IN PARADISE 1sh 1925 great art of Ronald Colman who impersonates rich man, ultra rare!

Date Sold 12/14/2017
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

A Thief in Paradise, the 1925 George Fitzmaurice silent Samoa California tropical island romantic love triangle mistaken identity inheritance pearl diver melodrama ("The great polo match between blondes and brunettes in bathing suits"; "Adapted by Frances Marion from Leonard Merrick's novel 'The Worldlings'"; a wild story of the son of a San Francisco millionaire who has been disinherited by his father; he goes to Samoa and becomes friend with a poor pearl diver; he is killed in an accident and the pearl diver's half-breed wife convinces him to go to San Francisco and pretend to be the millionaire's son, in the hopes of gaining his inheritance; he fools the father, who forgives him, but when he falls in love with the dead man's long-ago girlfriend, his half-breed wife reveals the deception!) starring Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle, Claude Gillingwater, and Alec Francis. Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster! We have never auctioned a single item of any type for this movie in all our years of auctioning. Perhaps its rarity is partly due to the fact it was produced by Samuel Goldwyn and released through First National. It was one of only two movies that Goldwyn released this way (the first was right before it, called "In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter". We suspect that First National did not do a good job distributing these movies and that Goldwyn then switched to United Artists (you might wonder why he wasn't distributing through MGM, since his name was part of the title of the studio, but he had solely sold them his studio, and did not in any way run MGM. But we suspect that this movie was poorly distributed and that is why we have never auctioned any movie paper from it until we were consigned this great one-sheet!

Condition: very good. There are several small tears in the left half of the middle horizontal fold. In our image, it looks like there is small paper loss there, but that is just a tear that is folded back, and there is absolutely no paper loss. There are small tears and tiny paper loss in the right half of the bottom blank border. There are pinholes around the edges and a few scattered in the image. There is a very faint circular stain in the top right corner of the poster, but it truly only shows from the back. After the simplest of linenbacking, this poster will look incredible (although it certainly could be displayed exactly as it is)!
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