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Auction History Result 2s282 LOVE OVER NIGHT linen 1sh 1928 Rod La Rocque kidnaps girl & marries her, cool art, very rare! Date Sold 12/10/2017 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) Love Over Night, the 1928 Edward H. Griffith silent New York City romantic love triangle mistaken identify comedy farce ("Original Story and Adaptation by George Dromgold and Sanford Hewitt"; a really crazy comedy about a change maker on the subway who sees a beautiful woman and thinks she is a crook, so he starts following her, and a detective is already following him, thinking he has stolen change from the subway, and the woman goes to her fiance, who she is supposed to marry the next day; she sees the man following her, and she knocks him out, but when he recovers, the detective is after him, and she helps him escape, but then he kidnaps her and takes her to a church and forces her to marry him, after which he reveals that he was not a poor changemaker on the subway, but actually, the son of a very rich man) starring Rod La Rocque, Jeanette Loff, Tom Kennedy, Mary Carr, and Richard Tucker. Note that Mary Carr became a major star in the mid 1910s around the age of 40, playing the parts of saintly mothers. She continued to make movies (switching to grandmother roles) through the mid 1930s, and then continued with mostly uncredited parts until the mid 1950s. She passed away in 1973 at the age of 99! 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 first release 1928 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned two lobby cards and a window card from this movie until we received this one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and minor wear on the folds. It had a 1 1/2" scratch in La Rocque's neck below his ear, with two small scratches in the blue background to the right of his hair. It had a 3" vertical tear to the left of the girl's dress at the bottom of the clock and a 3" tear in the left of the top border. It had a pinhole in each corner. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Other than the exact defect described above, the poster is in really nice condition. Any restorer could easily touch up the scratches described above without re-backing the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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