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Auction History Result 3r356 ROARING ROAD deluxe 8x10 still '19 smiling Wallace Reid sitting by race cars! Date Sold 6/3/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Roaring Road, the 1919 Paul Hurst silent automobile racing sports romantic comedy (about the best salesman for a car company, and he is in love with the owner's daughter, and he wants to enter races with company cars, but the boss refuses, so he makes his own race car out of spare parts from the company, and he wins two big races and the daughter's hand in marriage) starring Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Theodore Roberts, Guy Oliver, and Clarence Geldart. Note that Wallace Reid was a top star in the early 1910s, and he met Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet who had also made movies in the early 1910s, and they then made many movies together, marrying in 1913. In 1917, she had their son, and she made few movies after the birth of her son. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making a movie "The Valley of the Giants", and he was injured, and took 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 the next year, she made this movie, "The Red Kimono", 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. Important Added Info: Note that this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock. Condition: very good. Someone wrote the name of the movie and an incorrect date in the top blank border. There are stains on the back of the still where it was attached to a mat, but they do not affect the front. Learn More about condition grades 
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