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GLORIOUS BETSY/VARSITY GLORIOUS BETSY/VARSITY WC, local theater OR search current auctions Auction History Result k149 GLORIOUS BETSY/VARSITY local theater window card movie poster '28 Costello Date Sold 2/28/2008Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Local Theater Window Card Movie Poster (measures 18" x 22") (Learn More) the circa 1928 local theater window card giving the movies that were playing for the upcoming week at the Colonial Haver Hill theater: Glorious Betsy, the 1928 Alan Crosland historical biographical France romantic melodrama (based on the true story of Napoleon's brother Jerome, who went to the U.S. and fell in love with a Southern belle, and he married her and took her back to France, and Napoleon had the marriage annulled, and sent the belle back to the U.S.) starring Dolores Costello (in the title role as Betsy Patterson), Conrad Nagel (as Jerome Bonaparte), John Miljan, Marc McDermott, and Pasquale Amato (as Napoleon Bonaparte). Note that this movie was a partial talkie and originally had two sound sequences, but while the movie still exists, the sound has been lost. Also note that the play this movie was based on had an artificial happy ending that did not happen in real life. In the play and movie, Betsy returns to France and Jerome runs off with her, and she has his baby! ANDVarsity, the 1928 Frank Tuttle college romantic family relationship comedy (about an alcoholic janitor at Princeton University, and he helps an orphan get into the college, and he acts as his "guardian angel"; in his second year, the young man gets drunk after a fight with his girlfriend and loses the class' money gambling, but the janitor takes the blame, and helps him all the way until he graduates, and he marries his girlfriend, and he never does learn that the old alcoholic who helped him so much was actually his father!) starring Charles 'Buddy ' Rogers, Mary Brian, Chester Conklin, Phillips Holmes, and Robert Ellis. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. Note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", re-titled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman! 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 this poster will need to be sent in a very large flat package that measures approximately 20" x 24" x 1" high, so please bear the shipping costs of this very large package in mind BEFORE you place a bid! Condition: fair to good. There is staining and some nail holes around the edges of the poster, with a lesser amount within the image. Learn More about condition grades 
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