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Auction History Result 1h242 TOO MUCH SPEED 1/2sh 1921 race car driver Wallace Reid gives up driving for love, ultra-rare! Date Sold 11/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Too Much Speed, the 1921 Frank Urson silent car racing automobile manufacturer romantic action melodrama (about a race car driver who gets engaged to the daughter of the owner of a car company, and he quits racing so he can marry her; but he gets in a race to try to win a big contract for the company, and he is arrested for speeding and put in jail, and the wedding is off, but later he enteres a big race driving a car made by his future father-in-law and he wins the race, which makes everything alright!) starring Wallace Reid, Agnes Ayres, Thodore Roberts, Jack Richardson, and Lucien Littlefield. Note that Wallace Reid was a major star of the early 1910s, who fell in love with Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet. He married her, and they made many movies together in the middle 1910s, marrying in 1913. In 1917, Davenport had their son, and she made few movies after the birth of her son, but he remained a top star. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making a movie "The Valley of the Giants", and he was injured, and took morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. 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 1921 movie paper for this title is extremely rare! We have only auctioned two lobby cards for this movie and no other U.S. items until we were consigned this half-sheet! Because this poster is quite old, it can't be reasonably rolled (because that would almost surely damage the poster) and it will need to be sent in a large flat package, so bear in mind this additional cost when bidding on this poster. Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. It has smudges and scuff marks around the edges with a few small stains and pinholes but the poster has survived in really nice condition and it is not very fragile, although it cannot be rolled (see above). Learn More about condition grades 
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