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Auction History Result 6g391 LA BELLE RUSSE LC '19 naked Theda Bara behind changing screen flirts with dapper man! Date Sold 4/2/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) La Belle Russe (literally translates to "The Russian Beauty"), the 1919 Charles Brabin silent World War I (WWI) mistaken-identity romantic melodrama ("The celebrated stage drama by David Belasco"; "A Theda Bara Super Production"; when they say "they don't make 'em like this anymore", they are referring to movies like this!; Bara is a dancer who marries a rich young Englishman; his family disinherits him for doing so, and he enlists in World War I; she becomes pregnant and he is missing and presumed dead; the dead man's family takes back the now pregnant dancer, because she is carrying the sole heir to their family's name; the missing son returns with a friend who identifies the dancer as a notorious French dancer called "La Belle Russe", and the family is shocked, but it turns out that the dancer is not the notorious dancer, but rather her identical twin sister, who had been hoping to kill her sister and take her place!) starring Theda Bara (in a dual role as Fleurette Sackton and La Belle Russe), Warburton Gamble, Marian Stewart, Robert Lee Keeling, and William B. Davidson NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. The card was lightly folded down the middle, running down the left of Bara's hair and through her arm. There is small separation at the top and bottom of that fold and some slight darkening around the edges (see our image). Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades 
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