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Auction History Result 7y0823 CAMILLE French 1p 1912 Kastor art of Sarah Bernhardt as Dumas doomed heroine, very rare! Date Sold 3/16/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 47" x 63" [119 x 160 cm]) (Learn More) La Dame aux Camelias (released in English-speaking countries as "Camille"), the 1912 Andre Calmettes, Henri Pouctal, & Louis Mercanton French silent romantic melodrama (based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils; about the French son of a noble family who is a law student and he falls for a beautiful prostitute; she reforms for him and they live in poverty, but the young man's father feels disgraced, and he convinces the woman to give up his son, and she returns to her former life, and he, not knowing what his father did, meets her publicly and denounces her, but she does not enlighten him, and at the climax, she dies holding a gift he gave her) starring Sarah Bernhardt (in the title role as Marguerite Gauthier; one of just seven movies made by the famous French stage actress!), Lou Tellegen, Paul Capellani, Jean Chameroy, Suzanne Seylor, Henri Desfontaines, Henri Pouctal, and Pitou. Note that this classic story was made into a movie many times in the silent days, but very few posters survive from any of those versions. The most memorable versions are this one, the 1926 version starring Norma Talmadge, and the 1936 sound version starring Greta Garbo. Sarah Bernhardt was a legendary French stage actresses who was born in 1844 in Paris. The daughter of poor Jewish parents, she acted while a student in her teens, but later became the mistress of a Belgian prince, and had a child by him. The prince's family forced him to break up with Bernhardt, and she became a courtesan, and then began acting again in 1866. By the 1870s Bernhardt was France's leading actress, and toured all over Europe and in New York, earning her the nickname "The Divine Sarah". She made her first movie in 1900, and only appeared in a total of seven films. An old injury eventually forced her to have her right leg amputated in 1914, but she continued to perform until her passing in 1923 at the age of 78! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Robert Kastor Important Added Info: Note that generally French posters from before World War II are incredibly scarce, but even more scarce are French posters from the silent period! This is one of the few silent French posters we have ever auctioned. But beyond that, this is also only one of three Sarah Bernhardt posters we have ever auctioned, and one of the other posters we have auctioned was a U.S. three-sheet that we auctioned seven years ago, which sold for $1,850. The other two posters were one-panels, one this one, which auctioned for $847, and the other a linenbacked example of this poster, which auctioned for $820. Now we have been reconsigned this poster, so it is still only one of three Sarah Bernhardt posters we have ever auctioned, and of course, it can be professionally restored as the other one-panel was. Condition: fair. The poster is extremely fragile. It has many tears and separations on the folds and borders, with some paper loss in the left blank border. Someone put many small pieces of conservation tape on the back of some of the defects. The poster is in urgent need of expert professional restoration. But the poster is mostly "all there", and after linenbacking by a talented professional, the poster will display well, but please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored! Learn More about condition grades 
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