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Auction History Result 4y022 FLESH & THE DEVIL insert '26 John Gilbert's love for Greta Garbo goes beyond all limits! Date Sold 8/3/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Flesh and the Devil, the 1926 Clarence Brown silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("From the novel The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann"; about a man who becomes obsessed with a woman after just catching a glimpse of her; he doesn't see her for years and when he does, he enrages her husband, who challenges him to a duel, and he kills the husband, and is sent away; while he is gone, his best friend watches after the widow, and when he returns, he discovers his best friend has married her; he still can't resist her, and his friend catches him with his wife, and they agree to have a duel, but while they are about to shoot, they realize the absurdity of it, and throw down their guns and embrace, but the wife, who was coming to stop them, dies on the way!) starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, and William Orlamond. Note that it seems amazing in the present day to realize that John Gilbert was billed above the title in this movie and that Greta Garbo received much inferior second billing (equal to that of third billed Lars Hanson), but of course, this was Greta Garbo's first year in the U.S., and her third American movie, and John Gilbert was a major established star, so he fully deserved his much better billing! 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 this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a light paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (it means that the poster must be handled carefully, as the backing does not give it much added strength, but it is similar to having an unrestored poster, and yet it has been properly preserved). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards. Condition: good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster was never folded. There was much staining scattered throughout the bottom right of the poster (below a diagonal line running through Garbo's arm and down through the center of the credits into the left border). Fortunately, the greatest staining was in the top left corner and in the bottom left credits area, and there was very little staining in the top center image. There was tiny paper loss near the middle of the right blank border. A talented restorer cleaned the poster thoroughly, removing much of the staining through chemical means, and then did paint restoration as needed. This poster has had expert restoration and displays pretty well, but the restorer could only do so much restoration to the lower part of the poster without re-painting large portions of it (and I agree with that decision, because to do so would have required lots of paint, which would have given the poster a "heavily restored" look, and I don't feel the remaining faint staining is all that distracting (and it is primarily not in the top image area) and it helps establish that this is a genuine 84 year-old original poster! Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this insert that had no defects or restoration, but I do not know if another example of this insert exists (or if it does, if the owner would consider parting with it!). Learn More about condition grades 
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