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Auction History Result 7k073 GARDEN OF ALLAH linen 1sh 1916 art of Miss Helen Ware in a love story of Sahara Desert, rare! Date Sold 6/15/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 1/2" x 41 1/4" [70 x 105 cm]) (Learn More) The Garden of Allah, the 1916 Colin Campbell silent romantic melodrama ("W.N. Selig's Masterpiece"; "A Love Story of the Sahara Desert"; "Dramatized by MME. Navarro [Mary Anderson] and Robert Hitchens") starring Helen Ware (billed as "Miss Helen Ware"), Tom Santschi, Will Machin, Matt Snyder, and Harry Lonsdale. Note that Mary Anderson had been a legendary stage actress of the 1870s and 1880s. She started in Shakespeare plays (most notably as Juliet) starting in 1875 at the age of 16, and was massively successful in the U.S. and England through 1889, when she collapsed on stage (apparently from exhaustion), and she announced her retirement, and she was only 30 years old. The following year, she married an American sportsman named Antonio Fernando de Navarro, and she became known as Mary Anderson de Navarro. She had three children and refused to return to the theater, but during World War I, she appeared in some fundraiser theatrical performances. She wrote two autobiographical books and she co-wrote with the author, Robert Smythe Hichens, the 1911 stage play adaptation of his novel "The Garden of Allah". In 1916, William Selig brought this to the screen for the first time, and Miss Anderson was given major credit on the posters (as "Mme. Navarro [Mary Anderson]"), together with Robert Hichens. There was a 1927 remake of this movie, and another in 1936, starring Marlene Dietrich. 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 one-sheet measures 27 1/2" x 41 1/4" [70 x 105 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster was never folded. Soon after it was created, it was glued to a thin linen backing, with no excess. It was not well glued, and there are ripples scattered throughout the poster. There is a 12" tear in the bottom center and many tears around the edges, with paper loss in the top blank corners and in the lower right corner, slightly entering some of the letters. But the bulk of the poster is intact, and if I owned it, I would surely have it removed from the thin linen and properly linenbacked and restored, after which it will display quite nicely. Learn More about condition grades 
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