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Auction History Result 7c370 HELLSHIP BRONSON style B 1sh '28 stone litho of captain Noah Beery & Dorothy Davenport! Date Sold 4/8/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Hellship Bronson, the 1928 Joseph Henabery silent seafaring sailor romantic family melodrama ("In a mighty drama of primitive passions"; a wild movie, about a mother stowing away on a ship to be with her son, who she hasn't seen in 20 years, and her ex-husband, the boy's father, is the Captain, and the son finds love, and the Captain gives his life so that his son and his girlfriend can live!) starring Dorothy Davenport (billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid"), Noah Beery Sr. (in the title role as Captain Bronson), Reed Howes, Helen Foster, and James Bradbury Jr. 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. Condition: very good. The poster has tiny separation at the bottom two crossfolds. It has three small tears in the left of the middle foldline, with minor wear on the other folds. It has pinholes in the corners and some small tears in the upper left blank border. Learn More about condition grades 
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