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Auction History Result 7a037 FOREVER linen horizontal 1sh '21 first version of Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson, super rare! Date Sold 4/3/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Horizontal One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 26" x 40" [66 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Forever, the 1921 George Fitzmaurice silent doomed romantic love triangle architect melodrama ("The most beautiful love story ever imagined"; "The most romantic and appealing photoplay ever made"; "Based on the novel 'Peter Ibbetson' by George DuMaurier and the play by John Nathan Raphael"; about an architect who is hired by a Duke to construct a glorious home for him and his wife, but then the architect discovers that the Duchess is his childhood sweetheart; they fall in love, but don't act on it, and then the architect it sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing, and the Duchess comes to him in dreams and they are able to fulfill their romance!) starring Elsie Ferguson, Wallace Reid (as Peter Ibbetson), Montagu Love, George Fawcett, and Dolores Cassinelli. Note that there are several very notable things about this movie. First off, it was based on a novel written in 1891, and it was written by George Du Maurier, who was the grandfather of Daphne Du Maurier, the lady who wrote "Rebecca". It was remade in 1935 with Gary Cooper in the lead role. In 1943, Ayn Rand wrote "The Fountainhead", and she liberally borrowed the main plot of this book in having architect Gary Cooper design a house for a newspaper publisher and his wife, who was Cooper's great love (and certainly Rand saw the 1935 version, and in fact, she chose Gary Cooper to play her architect, Howard Roark, in The Fountainhead). 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 is a special "horizontal" one-sheet! It is something Paramount experimented with in 1920 and 1921 (we know those two years because we have seen them for "The Sheik" from 1920 and "Forever" from 1921). They are in the pressbook, and are quite striking! We imagine the experiment was discontinued because theater owners only had frames that displayed one-sheets vertically, and they did not want to go to the trouble of getting or making horizontal frames! We have only ever seen these two horizontal one-sheets, and while there are likely others, they are surely incredibly rare! Note that this poster measures 26" x 40" [66 x 102 cm], but it has not been trimmed. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The right 6" of the poster had been trimmed off and also missing was a triangular area in the top right in the black background and a smaller triangular area in the bottom right in the black background. There were pinholes, tears, and some paper loss around the edges of the rest of the poster, but the bulk of the rest of the poster was in pretty good condition prior to linenbacking. Some really talented restorer recreated the missing right 6" (but fortunately, it was mostly only background area, with a slight bit of image, and the far right of the credits), and while you can see that it has been replaced, it is not very distracting, and the poster still displays well. Certainly, one would prefer to own an unrestored example of this poster, but I doubt another example of it exists at all! Learn More about condition grades 
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