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Auction History Result 2m215 MAN HUNT 1sh 1933 great colorful art of Mrs. Wallace Reid Dorothy Davenport, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/16/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Man Hunt, the 1933 Irving Cummings family detective crime mystery melodrama ("Seventeen years old and a failure!"; "Little did the boy detective dream that before the night was out, he would be the principal figure in a 'Man Hunt'"; about a teenage boy obsessed with detective stories, and then he gets involved in a real life murder investigation, helping the lead detective solve the crime, or so he thinks) starring Junior Durkin, Charlotte Virginia Henry, Dorothy Davenport (billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid"), Arthur Vinton, Edward LeSaint, and Carl Gross. Note that the stars of this movie are as interesting as the movie itself. One was Junior Durkin, who was best friends with Jackie Coogan, and was also a teenage star, but tragically, Durkin and Coogan's father were killed in a car crash, which drastically changed Jackie Coogan's future. And Dorothy Davenport was Wallace Reid's widow. 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 was given 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. Not only have we never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning, but also, we have never auctioned ANY movie paper of any kind for this title! Condition: very good. The poster has separation and tiny paper loss at the bottom crossfold and tiny separation at the other two folds. It has creases, tiny stains, and a few tears in the left blank border and in the left of the bottom border, with a lesser amount of wear in the other borders. After a relatively simple linenbacking, the poster will look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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