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Auction History Result 4c358 WINGS 13 8x10 stills '27 William Wellman Best Picture winner, Buddy Rogers Richard Arlen! Date Sold 11/24/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 13 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) Wings, the 1927 William A. Wellman silent/talking World War I (WWI) military airplane aviation romantic thriller melodrama ("To those young warriors of the sky whose wings are folded about them forever in this motion picture is reverently dedicated."; "Story by John Monk Saunders"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Arlette Marchal, Gary Cooper (in one of his first major roles!), Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Richard Tucker, and Roscoe Karns. Note that Arlette Marchal was a French actress who had some success in American silent films. She was fourth billed when this movie was first released in 1927, but likely she had great trouble speaking English, because when the movie had dialogue added in 1929, she was no longer billed at all! Also note that Clara Bow was the most famous "flapper girl" of the mid to late 1920s (she became known as "The It Girl" after the character she played based on the popular novel by Elinor Glyn). She had a major role in Wings, and was Paramount's biggest star at that time. But she had a notorious private life and seemingly "settled down" when she married cowboy star Rex Bell in 1931 (she had two children and she retired from movies), but sadly in 1949 she went into a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt (she had had psychiatric issues for quite some time) and she was released but never returned to her family, and lived alone until her death in 1965. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: SUPER IMPORTANT! THOUGH ONLY EIGHT OF THE STILLS ARE PICTURED, THE HIGH BIDDER ON THIS LOT WILL RECEIVE 13 STILLS FROM THIS MOVIE (but realize that on some of these lots with 9 or more stills there may be a few duplicates, mostly on post-1960 lots)! We realize there is an element of gambling to this, but we made only a small effort to find the best stills in these lots, and, if you have any willingness to gamble at all, you may find that you get some great stills that were not pictured! Please do NOT bid on this lot unless you can accept that you are only seeing eight of the stills. Also note that one is a keybook still and has been mounted to a linen type material and once had an extra 1" at the left of the still (not pictured).
UPDATED 11/22/2013: Note that we have been asked about the originality of these stills. One of the stills is a keybook still, six have snipes glued on the back, and two of them have Paramount stamps on the back giving credit to photographers (one for Otto Dyar and one for Eugene Robert Richee) so we are 100% certain these are original stills from 1927. Condition: very good. Several stills have minor edge defects and some paper loss mostly in the blank borders. One of the stills has a small area of surface paper loss at lower center and the keybook still has been roughly trimmed with some paper loss in the left edge (both not pictured). Overall most of the defects are outside the main image area and the stills are in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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