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Auction History Result 6y1403 JACK-KNIFE MAN local theater program 1920 art of woman holding glowing globe, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/30/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Program (measures 5 1/4" x 7 1/4" [13 x 18 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) The Jack-Knife Man, the 1920 King Vidor silent lonely-old-man-adopts-orphan-boy melodrama ("But can't you see you're making children everywhere happier?"; "A story for children from nine to ninety by Ellis Parker Butler"; this is a kind of strange story!; a lonely older man takes in an orphan boy, and then a hobo comes along and helps the old man raise him, and then a rich woman tries to take the boy away, but she sees that the old man is a genius at carving toys with his jackknife, and she ends up marrying him instead, and they take care of the boy together, and stranger yet, it turns out that the hobo was really the boy's natural father, but he sees the boy is better off with the man and woman) starring Fred A. Turner (in the title role as the Jack-Knife Man), Harry Todd, Bobby Kelso (as the boy), Willis Marks, Lillian Leighton, and Florence Vidor (the director's wife, appearing in a small role) 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 we have never before auctioned this program, which is for the Strand Theatre in New York! Also note that the program has an artist's signature on it, but we cannot read it. If anyone knows the name of this artist, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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