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Auction History Result 6z345 PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS linen style B 1sh '23 Gloria Swanson wants own latchkey & new lips to kiss! Date Sold 4/1/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Prodigal Daughters, the 1923 Sam Wood silent New York City Greenwich Village Prohibition romantic love triangle family relationship gambling melodrama ("The Seven Deadly Whims - New lips to kiss, Freedoms from conventions, A new world for women, No more chaperones, Life with a kick in it, The single moral standard, Our own latchkeys"; "From the novel by Joseph Hocking"; a great story of the Roaring Twenties, with two daughters of a wealthy businessman who discover the "jazz life" in Greenwich Village in New York City, and go to live there; one daughter marries a song writer who soon deserts her; the other gets involved with a pilot who works for her father, and also a professional gambler who cheats her out of a lot of money, and then offers to make one last wager, of everything she owes against her agreeing to marry him, and of course she loses!; but the speakeasy they are in is raided by Prohibition agents, and the pilot helps her escape, and she and her sister return home, sadder but wiser, and she intends to settle down with the pilot) starring Gloria Swanson, Ralph Graves, Vera Reynolds, Theodore Roberts, Louise Dresser, and Charles Clary. Note that despite the artificial "happy ending", this movie was an early example of feminist ideals in movies, with women refusing to accept the status quo, and wanting to enjoy the same freedoms that men did at that time. The studio created a great style B one-sheet with a chart showing "The Seven Deadly Whims" (instead of "Sins"), giving a list of what 1923 women wanted most, including their "own latchkeys", and "a new world for women"! Finally, 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that there were two different styles of one-sheet for this movie. We have never seen the "A" style (we don't know if it exists), but we imagine it has either a headshot of Gloria Swanson or a romantic image of her, but the "B" style, which is the one offered here, has a wonderful stone litho image of Gloria Swanson beside a poster of "The Seven Deadly Whims" (see above)! This poster originally came from the legendary Charles A. Dyas collection, which was auctioned by Bruce Hershenson at Christie's in 1990. This poster is the same exact poster that was auctioned at Christie's in 1990, and it has been re-consigned to us 24 years later (and it is the only example of this poster we are aware of!). In December of 2013, we re-auctioned a wonderful Gloria Swanson poster from "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" that originated in the same collection, and it sold for $18,500! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and a few tiny bits of paper loss on the vertical foldline. It had minor wear on the other foldlines. It had small paper loss in the center of the bottom border. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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