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Auction History Result 7j1109 REDEMPTION WC 1917 stone litho image of Evelyn Nesbit & son in protective embrace, rare! Date Sold 2/2/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 13 3/4" x 21 1/4" [35 x 54 cm]) (Learn More) Redemption, the 1917 Julius Steger silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("Evelyn Nesbit And Her Son Russell Thaw In A Photo-Play From Life") starring Evelyn Nesbit, Russell Thaw (Nesbit's real life son), Charles Wellesley, Mary Hall, and William Clark. Note that this was the most autobiographical of Nesbit's dozen silents all of which traded on her association with the "Murder Trial of the Century". In this movie, Nesbit plays a happily married former actress. Into her domestic bliss intrudes a caddish former lover (an architect!) who wants her back; when she spurns him, he reveals her shameful past; the ensuing scandal leads to her husband's death and banishment from polite society for her and their son until the inevitable redemption in the final reel. In real life, it was Nesbit's ex, the architect Stanford White, who was shot by her insanely jealous husband Harry K. Thaw, in front of hundreds of witnesses, at Madison Square Garden in 1906. Nesbit's testimony about White's seduction of her as an underage Broadway chorine spared Thaw execution, he was confined to a mental institution instead. When her wealthy in-laws reneged on a financial settlement, Nesbit returned to show business to support herself and her son Russell, whose paternity Thaw denied. Note that little attention has been paid to Nesbit's movies, owing to the survival of only one (a one-reel comedy for Edison) and scant collateral material (a memorable exception occurs in Ragtime from 1981 when Elizabeth McGovern portrays Nesbit filming a slapstick scene being kidnapped off an Atlantic City beach by pirates). But Redemption was one of 1917's biggest hits; the public couldn't seem to get enough of Evelyn Nesbit! An "It Girl" before the term was invented, she parlayed her fifteen minutes of notoriety into an entertainment career that lasted fifteen years before she faded into narcotic-induced obscurity. 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this window card, and that was 11 years ago, when it sold for $607! Also note that the card measures very slightly under 14" x 22" (an extremely tiny amount in each direction!) and has no left, right, or bottom blank borders, but it has NOT been trimmed (this was done at a time when this studio was experimenting with having as few borders as possible). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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