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Auction History Result 6r0358 MARIA ROSA 3 8x10 stills 1916 Cecil B DeMille, Geraldine Farrar & Wallace Reid, ultra rare! Date Sold 11/26/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) Maria Rosa, the 1916 Cecil B. DeMille silent Spain romantic love triangle murder melodrama (based on the play by Wallace Gilpatrick, Angel Guimera, & Guido Marburg; about a beautiful Spanish woman with two lovers, and when she picks one, the other kills a man, but the man she picked is blamed instead and sent to jail, but she says she will wait for him forever, and then her ex-boyfriend tells her her true love died in prison, and that is just the beginning of the story!) starring Geraldine Farrar (in the title role as Maria Rosa), Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, and James Neill. 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. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of 16 groups of incredibly rare stills from Cecil B. DeMille movies from between 1915 and 1923. On several of these titles, virtually no movie paper at all exists! These are all of the groups of early Cecil B. DeMille stills we were consigned, so unless you purchase from this set of auctions, you may not have a chance at groups of stills like these for many years! Condition: very good. Each has glue staining on back (they were likely in a portfolio of some sort at one time) and surface scuffs and some smudges. They are otherwise in generally nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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