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Auction History Result 6r0411 CARMEN 2 8x10 stills 1915 Cecil B. DeMille, Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid as Don Jose, rare! Date Sold 11/26/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) Carmen, the 1915 Cecil B. DeMille silent Spain war-time military doomed love romantic melodrama ("A picturization of the immortal masterpiece"; based on the novella written in 1845 by Prosper Merimee, which was adapted into an opera by Georges Bizet in 1875; about a Spanish soldier who falls under the spell of a gypsy woman and his obsession eventually leads himself to ruin) starring Geraldine Farrar (billed as "The incomparable Metropolitan Opera star"; in the title role as Carmen), Wallace Reid (as Don Jose), Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter, William Elmer, and Jeanie Macpherson. Note that while Cecil D. DeMille was making this version, Raoul Walsh was making a competing version with Theda Bara and Walsh's version was released first. Charlie Chaplin made fun of the "duelling Carmens" in his "Burlesque on Carmen", also released in 1915. There were three more silent Carmens and there have been many sound versions as well. Note also that Wallace Reid was a major star of the early 1910s, who fell in love with Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet. He married her, and they made many movies together in the middle 1910s, marrying in 1913. In 1917, Davenport had their son, and she made few movies after the birth of her son, but he remained a top star. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making a movie "The Valley of the Giants", and he was injured, and took morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is one of 16 groups of incredibly rare stills from Cecil B. DeMille movies from between 1915 and 1923. On several of these titles, virtually no movie paper at all exists! These are all of the groups of early Cecil B. DeMille stills we were consigned, so unless you purchase from this set of auctions, you may not have a chance at groups of stills like these for many years! We auctioned a one-sheet poster in 1994 (and it sold for $5,980!), a single herald (also in that year), and an Italian one-sheet from a 1940s re-release (in 1996), but we have auctioned no other movie paper items from the film at all until we were consigned these two stills! Condition: very good. Each has glue staining on back (they were likely in a portfolio of some sort at one time) but it has little or no effect on the front. The very rare stills are otherwise in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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