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Auction History Result 8m154 BIG PARADE souvenir program book '25 King Vidor's World War I epic, John Gilbert, cool art! Date Sold 5/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Souvenir Program Book (measures 9 1/4" x 12 1/4" [23 x 31 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) The Big Parade, the classic 1925 King Vidor silent romantic World War I (WWI) American-soldiers-in-France military melodrama ("It's here! The film that you'll call the best you ever saw"; "Story by Laurence Stallings"; "King Vidor's production of Lawrence Stallings' great motion picture story following his stage success with 'What Price Glory'"; about an all-American boy who enlists in the Army in World War I, and he and his friends have a great time until they are thrust into combat, and the movie shows the horrors of war in a way that had not been done before, and the boy returns home after losing a leg; there is also a romantic subplot with the American G.I. having a brief affair with a beautiful French girl) starring John Gilbert ("The Star"), Renee Adoree ("as Melisande"), Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Robert Ober, Tom O'Brien, Karl Dane, and Rosita Martini. Note that MGM had no idea what they had when this movie was being made, but King Vidor was able to sell them on the potential of the movie, and convince them to spend a huge amount of money filming authentic battle scenes, and the movie was a major critical and financial success! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that the back cover has a stamp from the famous Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood (this was Sid Grauman's FIRST theater on Hollywood, opening in 1922; his Chinese Theatre was not opened until five years later!), indicating this program was sold at that historic theater! Note that we have pictured the front cover and an interior 2-page spread from this program. Condition: good. The covers are almost completely separated at the spine and some of the interior pages are loose (but none are missing). There is wear around the edges of the covers. Learn More about condition grades 
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