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Auction History Result 1g133 OLD FOLKS AT HOME linen Swedish 23x35 '17 Mildred Harris Chaplin, great silkscreen art! Date Sold 4/5/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1917 (from the first Swedish release) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Swedish Movie Poster (measures 23 1/4" x 35 1/4" [59 x 90 cm]) (Learn More) Old Folks at Home, the 1916 Chester Whitey silent romantic political crime murder melodrama ("A Rupert Hughes Story"; about a small town man who is elected state senator, and who moves to the capital with his wife and son, and his son forgets about his hometown sweetheart and falls in with bad men, and kills a man, but at his trial, his mother pleads for mercy for him, and he is found not guilty!) starring Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (who is best remembered for starring in adaptations of William Shakespeare movies, but who appeared in this non-costume melodrama), Josephine Crowell, Elmer Clifton, Mildred Harris, and Lucille Young. Note that when this movie was made in 1916, Mildred Harris was 14 and had a minor role in this movie as the hometown sweetheart of the star's son. But two years later, she married Charlie Chaplin, and the movie was re-released at some point after that (perhaps in the very late 1910s, but also perhaps in the very early 1920s), and she was actually incredibly deceptively given top billing in the movie as "Mildred Harris Chaplin", to capitalize on her Charlie Chaplin connection, over that of the distinguished Shakespearean actor, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (and she only had a minor part)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Rohman Important Added Info: Note that this poster was not "linenbacked" in the modern sense! The poster was placed on to a very thin linen backing shortly after being printed (this was a common practice in the mid-1910s; in the later 1910s and 1920s they switched to using a kraftpaper backing). The purpose was to reinforce them, so that they would survive, when they were passed from theater to theater, and when they were put up on walls and taken down. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. There are creases and scuffs throughout the poster from it being oddly folded at one time. Other than the creases and scuffs, the poster is in generally nice condition and one could have it professionally removed from the old linen and linenbacked, and after restoration it would look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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