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Auction History Result y407 WINGS special movie lobby card '27 great image of bi-plane! Date Sold 4/11/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Wings, the 1927 William A. Wellman silent/talking World War I (WWI) military airplane aviation romantic thriller melodrama ("To those young warriors of the sky whose wings are folded about them forever in this motion picture is reverently dedicated."; "Story by John Monk Saunders"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Arlette Marchal, Gary Cooper (in one of his first major roles!), Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Richard Tucker, and Roscoe Karns. Note that Arlette Marchal was a French actress who had some success in American silent films. She was fourth billed when this movie was first released in 1927, but likely she had great trouble speaking English, because when the movie had dialogue added in 1929, she was no longer billed at all! Also 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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is an unusual special lobby card! It seems to be certainly original to 1927. It seems most likely that this classic movie was so popular that the studio ran out of regular lobby cards, and created these "special" lobby cards using a stock background (printed on thin paper), with a rectangular area in the center where they glued on stills. The stock background has nothing to do with the movie "Wings", but the glued on still measures 7" x 9" and appears to surely be an original 1927 still from this classic movie. Note that we put that this lobby card "seems to be certainly original to 1927". This is clearly wrong. While I believe the still IS from 1927, the stock background depicts a 1946 era Lockheed L49 constellation airplane, so the background is surely from that date or later. I suppose it is possible that the still is an unmarked re-release still from 1946 or later, but I have examined it closely, and I believe it to be from the original release. Please do not bid on this special lobby card unless you can accept the uncertainty as to the date of release of the still, and that the stock background is definitely from 1946 or later. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades ![]()
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