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The Runaway, the 1926 William C. de Mille silent movie acting hillbilly romantic screwball comedy (Bow is a Hollywood actress who thinks she has killed another actor, so she hides in the remote Kentucky mountains, and finds herself the object of affection of two local citizens) starring Clara Bow, Warner Baxter, George Bancroft, William Powell, and Edythe Chapman. Note that Warner Baxter was born in 1889, and in the early 1920s he rose to prominence in silent movies, becoming a major star of the 1920s, while he was in his 30s. He won the Oscar for Best Actor as The Cisco Kid in "In Old Arizona" in 1929, and he remained a top star throughout the 1930s! Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. Note that Clara Bow was the most famous "flapper girl" of the mid to late 1920s (she became known as "The It Girl" after the character she played based on the popular novel by Elinor Glyn). She had a major role in Wings, and was Paramount's biggest star at that time. But she had a notorious private life and seemingly "settled down" when she married cowboy star Rex Bell in 1931 (she had two children and she retired from movies), but sadly in 1949 she went into a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt (she had had psychiatric issues for quite some time) and she was released but never returned to her family, and lived alone until her death in 1965. Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist.
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Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper items from this movie are incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned one-sheet (31 years ago, when it sold for $1,540), a window card, three lobby cards, a glass slide, and three stills from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this fourth lobby card!

Note that the vast majority of collectors would assume that this is a title card, but it is not! In the mid to late 1920s, Paramount made many sets of lobby cards where the seven scene cards all LOOK like title cards, but the actual title card is different from the seven scene cards (not too long after this, Paramount abandoned title cards altogether for the most part for the next forty-odd years, instead using a posed portrait of the stars in place of a title card). We have only seen 5 cards from this set, and we believe that none of those cards are the actual title card. Please do not bid on this card thinking it is a title card, as it is likely a scene card!

Note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

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