eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3f0775 SHEIK LC 1921 c/u of Rudolph Valentino & Agnes Ayres holding hands, Paramount classic, rare! Date Sold 11/22/2022Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Sheik, the classic 1921 George Melford Arabia silent romantic melodrama ("It's a Paramount Picture"; "Based on the novel by Edith M. Hull"; about an Arab sheik who meets a female British socialite, and he falls heavily for her, but she wants no part of him, so he kidnaps her and takes her to his palace in the desert; she rejects him, but after she is re-kidnapped by bandits does she start to realize that she has fallen in love with the sheik, who rescues her in the nick of time!) starring Rudolph Valentino (in the title role as Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan), Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, and Adolphe Menjou. Note that Valentino had risen to stardom in the late 1910s, but this movie made him a superstar! He would complete ten more movies over the next five years, but sadly, after making a sequel to this movie, "The Son of the Sheik", in 1926, he passed away from complications after surgery. He was just 31 years of age, and the entire world mourned his passing. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this lobby card, and that was 29 years ago in a group of two cards (and that group sold for $2,875)! Also 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. Condition: good to very good. There is faint dot staining across the bottom 1" of the card and darkening in part of the top edge of the top blank border. There are some other small stains and smudges around the edges. The card was hand colored and the coloring in the stars' faces was not done extremely carefully, so it is slightly uneven (see our image). Note that this card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades
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