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Auction History Result #4673 MY OFFICIAL WIFE LC '26 Rich, Tearle Date Sold 4/8/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) My Official Wife, the 1926 Paul L. Stein silent pre-revolutionary Russia/Austria nobility rape revenge romantic melodrama ("From the play by A.C. Gunter"; a pretty unbelievable story of a young Russian woman who is raped by the son of a nobleman and then she is railroaded on false charges, but the rapist feels sorry afterward, so he helps her escape to Vienna, where she becomes a famous cabaret dancer; years later, the rapist follows her there and she doesn't recognize him and he falls in love with her; then she realizes who he is and goes back to Russia with him to get her revenge; after the Revolution, he escapes to Vienna, where he is destitute, and she takes him in, and they fall in love) starring Irene Rich, Conway Tearle, Stuart Holmes, John Miljan, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Jane Winton. Note that director Paul L. Stein was an Austrian who became an actor in Germany in 1915, but who started directing and went to the U.S., where he had success directing "women's pictures". He went to England in 1931 and stayed there until his passing in 1951. He is completely forgotten today, but he achieved some significant success in his lifetime. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. water stains and areas of darkening in the blank borders (more so in the left and right blank borders); light scuffs throughout the card; tiny paper loss and tears in the left blank border and in the upper right blank corner Learn More about condition grades 
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