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Constance Binney was an actress from the 1910s to the 1920s. She was born in 1896 and she became a leading actress in 1918, and she worked in movies for 5 years, at which point she moved back to New York where she was born and briefly acted on Broadway, and then retired. She had two early husbands, and then in 1941, she married a World War II pilot who was 22 years younger than her! She passed away in 1989 at the age of 93. Her sister was actress Faire Binney.

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Important Added Info: Note that starting in the very early 1910s (around 1912, when studios realized that people were more likely to go to a movie if it had a star they liked in it), studios created sets of special "personality" posters, which theaters that showed their movies could hang in their lobbies. These had a big advantage over posters for specific movies, because they could be used whenever a movie with that star was shown, which meant they could be used over and over! Because studios realized this, they made these posters on a high quality paper stock, sometimes with a "linen" texture, and sometimes with elaborate border designs, and almost always with great quality color printing. They almost always measured exactly 22" x 28", the same as "half-sheets" (which were then known as "displays", except that they were taller than they were wide, and that the images almost always had a "full bleed", meaning that there were no blank borders. They almost always showed a head and shoulders image of the star, and the image on these posters is often very close to actual life-size! They almost always have the name of the star and the studio they worked for at the bottom. Even though there were many sets of these from many studios over a period of approximately 30 years (they were rarely made after the early 1940s), very few survive, likely partially due to World War II paper drives, and partially due to the fact that they were never folded and the paper they were made of sometimes aged poorly.

Note that Realart Pictures was a small Hollywood studio that was in business for a few years in the very early 1920s (we know that Adolph Zukor, of Paramount, owned a significant portion of it, and that they were affiliated with Paramount, perhaps also distributing their pictures, but we know little else about it). They only produced movies for a few years, but they had hopes of becoming a top Hollywood studio, and they created one set of personality posters to promote their stars (it did not help the studio, because in just a few years, the company either went bankrupt or merged with another company). Note that this studio has no relationship (other than the name) to the Realart Pictures that started in 1947 when Film Classics purchased the rights to classic Universal horror movies. These personality posters from the silent Realart studio are extremely rare as it is likely few theaters ordered them, and fewer still saved them, and in addition, they could be easily torn, and if they were not stored carefully, they would become fragile, and it is likely many were damaged and discarded for that reason! Note that the high quality paper stock these posters were printed on does not always age very well, and can become fragile (usually resulting in chips around the edges of the poster). Because of their fragile nature and their age, we intend to send all of these personality posters in large flat packages, and never roll them into tubes (unless the buyer insists)! PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER, UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING TO PAY THE COST OF SHIPPING IT IN A LARGE FLAT PACKAGE!

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