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Auction History Result 3a167 LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY WC '25 great full stone litho image of Mary Pickford hiding in barrel! Date Sold 5/6/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Little Annie Rooney, the 1925 William Beaudine silent New York City romantic juvenile street kids crime mystery melodrama (about a 12 year old girl who is a tough street kid in a poor neighborhood, and her father is a cop, and a street gang moves in the neighborhood, and her father is shot, and word spreads that a boy she liked was the shooter, and her brother shoots that boy, but it turns out he didn't do it, and she goes to the hospital and gives a blood transfusion that saves the boy's life!) starring Mary Pickford (in the title role as Little Annie Rooney), William Haines, Walter James, Gordon Griffith, Carlo Schipa, and Spec O'Donnell. Note that Pickford was convincing as a 12 year old girl, even though she was 32 when this movie was made. She had been trying hard to get to play non-juvenile rules (and who could blame her?), but the two adult roles she had taken had not done well at the box office. She had to find another movie where she was a juvenile, and she chose the 1889 music hall song "Little Annie Rooney" as the basis for her character in this movie. The song was still popular in 1925, and it not only inspired this movie, but also, after the movie, it inspired a long-running comic strip! 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 paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except somewhat heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had a diamond-shaped area of paper loss in the background just above the end of Pickford's sleeve. There were some pinholes, creases, tears, and stains around the edges of the card and a few scattered within the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but the restorer did not do a good job of matching the missing background area to the wall behind it, and you can see where that restoration was done, but otherwise, the card displays quite nicely (if I owned this great card, I would surely give it to a top restorer so they could perform additional restoration to that diamond-shaped area, so that it would become unnoticeable). Learn More about condition grades 
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