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Auction History Result 4r006 WOLF MAN linen 6sh '24 stone litho of Norma Shearer & John Gilbert in river rapids by wolf! Date Sold 4/9/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Six-Sheet Movie Poster (6sh; measures 81" x 81") (Learn More) The Wolf Man, the 1924 Edmund Mortimer silent romantic love triangle alcoholism adventure melodrama ("Better the rapids than the danger the forest held"; a complicated story of two wealthy English brothers in love with the same woman; one of the brothers is engaged to the woman, but he is an alcoholic who goes into rages when he is drunk, and after one such binge, his brother tells him he has killed his fiance's brother!; even though he doesn't remember it, he leaves England for Canada to escape the law, and finds a beautiful young woman, and he kidnaps her in another drunken binge; but once he sobers up, she falls in love with him, but her relatives want to kill him for kidnapping her, and he escapes in a canoe, but the canoe wrecks in rapids, and he survives, and sobers up and wins his new girl, and at the end, it is revealed that his brother was lying to him, and he never killed anyone, but his brother has married his old fiance!) starring John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Alma Francis, George Barraud, and Eugene Pallette. Note that Norma Shearer had only been appearing in credited roles for two years when this movie was made (she was 22 years-old), and she was under contract to Irving Thalberg at Metro Pictures (he would marry her five years later), but she was loaned to William Fox for this movie, and immediately after this movie, Thalberg signed John Gilbert to a contract at the newly formed MGM, and Gilbert and Shearer were reunited in "He Who Gets Slapped". 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 the "wolf man" of the title refers to how John Gilbert's character acts when he is on a drunken binge, but the poster artist for this six-sheet not only incorporated an image of a real snarling wolf, but he also showed a great image from the climax of the movie! Condition: good to very good. The top border of the poster was very tattered, slightly extending into the top edge of the image. The poster also had small paper loss at many crossfolds (the largest was at the crossfold near the exact center of the poster, in the very bottom of Shearer's dress) and many creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. Given the many defects, the poster was quite well backed, because even though you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects from close up, from any reasonable viewing distance, the poster displays quite well and does not have a "restored" look. Learn More about condition grades 
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