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Auction History Result 1k798 ACROSS THE CONTINENT 2 LCs 1922 Phil Rosen directed early silent, Wallace Reid, Mary MacLaren! Date Sold 10/19/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 2 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Across the Continent, the 1922 Phil Rosen (billed as "Philip E. Rosen") silent romantic love triangle transcontinental car racing sports action thriller ("By Byron Morgan"; about the son of the owner of a car company who rebels against his father by driving a competitor's car, but when his father's secretary informs him of the competitor's dishonesty, he drives his father's car and wins a transcontinental car race, plus the secretary too!) starring Wallace Reid, Mary MacLaren, Theodore Roberts, Betty Francisco, Walter Long, and Lucien Littlefield. Note that Wallace Reid was a top star in the early 1910s, and he met Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet who had also made movies in the early 1910s, and they then made many movies together, marrying in 1913. In 1917, she had their son, and she made few movies after the birth of her son. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making a movie "The Valley of the Giants", and he was injured, and was given morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and the next year, she made this movie, "The Red Kimono", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. Both have slight discoloration scattered in various areas due to exposure to moisture (more so in the card at top). Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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