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Auction History Result 3a176 REDEMPTION WC '17 tender stone litho image of Evelyn Nesbit & son in protective embrace! Date Sold 5/6/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Redemption, the 1917 Julius Steger silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("Evelyn Nesbit And Her Son Russell Thaw In A Photo-Play From Life") starring Evelyn Nesbit, Russell Thaw (Nesbit's real life son), Charles Wellesley, Mary Hall, and William Clark. Note that this was the most autobiographical of Nesbit's dozen silents all of which traded on her association with the "Murder Trial of the Century". In this movie, Nesbit plays a happily married former actress. Into her domestic bliss intrudes a caddish former lover (an architect!) who wants her back; when she spurns him, he reveals her shameful past; the ensuing scandal leads to her husband's death and banishment from polite society for her and their son until the inevitable redemption in the final reel. In real life, it was Nesbit's ex, the architect Stanford White, who was shot by her insanely jealous husband Harry K. Thaw, in front of hundreds of witnesses, at Madison Square Garden in 1906. Nesbit's testimony about White's seduction of her as an underage Broadway chorine spared Thaw execution, he was confined to a mental institution instead. When her wealthy in-laws reneged on a financial settlement, Nesbit returned to show business to support herself and her son Russell, whose paternity Thaw denied. Note that little attention has been paid to Nesbit's movies, owing to the survival of only one (a one-reel comedy for Edison) and scant collateral material (a memorable exception occurs in Ragtime from 1981 when Elizabeth McGovern portrays Nesbit filming a slapstick scene being kidnapped off an Atlantic City beach by pirates). But Redemption was one of 1917's biggest hits; the public couldn't seem to get enough of Evelyn Nesbit! An "It Girl" before the term was invented, she parlayed her fifteen minutes of notoriety into an entertainment career that lasted fifteen years before she faded into narcotic-induced obscurity. 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 window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: very good to fine. There is tiny surface paper loss in three corners and an oval-shaped stain in the boy's shoulder, with two dot stains to the right of that. There is a 1/4" tear in the middle of the left border and a 1" crease in the right of the top border. Other than the above, the card is in nice condition and it has never had any restoration or tape on the front or back. I think it has survived about as nicely as it could have after 93 years! Learn More about condition grades 
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