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Auction History Result 7h282 DIANA THE HUNTRESS 8x10 LC 1916 nude Valda Valkyrien as the Roman goddess kneeling in pond! Date Sold 6/24/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Lobby Card (Learn More) Diana the Huntress, the 1916 Charles W. Allen & Francis Trevelyan Miller silent Roman mythology dancing melodrama (the Roman goddess is captured by the moon, which make her nymphs sad, and she shoots an arrow down to the Earth and it grows into flowers, and the nymphs dance around the flowers, and Diana returns to join them, dancing in the nude, and elsewhere, Pan plays his flute and plays in a pond) starring Valda Valkyrien (in the title role as Diana - Goddess of the Moon), Paul Swan (as Apollo), Percy Richards, Lionel Braham, Grace Osborne, and Mary Navarro. Note that "Valda Valkyrien" was born Adele Stuart Freed in Iceland in 1895, and became the prima ballerina of the Royal Danish Ballet. In 1915, she met and married Danish Baron Hrolf Von DeWitz, and they had a son, but they soon divorced. She went to Hollywood and made movies with David Horsley and Thanhauser. William Fox signed her to a contract, but they had a dispute, and she sued him, and that lawsuit ended her Hollywood career. She performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and married New York industrialist Robert Otto, and had another son. She tried to make a comeback in Hollywood in 1927, but that did not result in any movies, and she retired. She is certainly a fascinating figure in early movie history who is only known to major film buffs. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this item contains some nudity, so we have placed a white bar over those areas for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual item does not have the white bars. Also note that, in the early days of movie making, when lobby cards were first made (around 1915), studios would issue sets of the cards in two sizes; the regular 11" x 14" size, and a smaller 8" x 10" size. The cards were identical in every way except for the different size. This practice continued through the early 1920s, at which point the studios abandoned the smaller lobby cards, likely because theaters either ordered 11" x 14" lobby cards or 8" x 10" stills, and did not order enough of the 8" x 10" lobby cards to justify them continuing to make them. Condition: good to very good. There is staining in the right of the bottom blank border. Otherwise, the card is in nice condition, especially given that it is over a century old! Learn More about condition grades 
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