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Auction History Result #5881 FIRING LINE 3 LCs '19 Irene Castle Date Sold 4/8/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (measure 11" x 14") (Learn More) The Firing Line, the 1919 Charles Maigne silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("By Robert W. Chambers"; "The beautiful gowns and dresses worn by Irene Castle in this film are pictured and described in the July Ladies' Home Journal"; a truly wild story of a woman who gets married "in name only", for the position she will gain, but then she falls in love with another man, and her husband, seeing that she is far happier with the other man, goes to a seance and asks his dead father for advice on what to do, and the dead father tells him to commit suicide, which he does, and then his wife is free to marry the other man!) starring Irene Castle, David Powell, Gladys Coburn, Anne Cornwall, Charles Craig, and Rudolph De Cordova. Note that star Irene Castle was the wife of Vernon Castle, and together they were a legendary dance team, but she made some movie appearances without her husband. In 1949, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made a biography of them called "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle". Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good. 2" tear in the right of the card with the man holding the woman; small piece torn away from the card with the man and the woman talking (now repaired with tape from the back); minor creases, tiny areas of paper loss, and smudges around the edges of the cards (see the image below) Learn More about condition grades 
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