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Auction History Result 1f0436 WINGS local theater program 1927 William Wellman Best Picture, Clara Bow & Buddy Rogers, rare! Date Sold 12/21/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Local Theater Movie Program (measures 6" x 9" [15 x 23 cm]; 4 pages). Also included is a supplement that has 1 page. (Learn More) Wings, the 1927 William A. Wellman silent/talking World War I (WWI) military airplane aviation romantic thriller melodrama ("To those young warriors of the sky whose wings are folded about them forever in this motion picture is reverently dedicated."; "Story by John Monk Saunders"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Arlette Marchal, Gary Cooper (in one of his first major roles!), Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Richard Tucker, and Roscoe Karns. Note that Arlette Marchal was a French actress who had some success in American silent films. She was fourth billed when this movie was first released in 1927, but likely she had great trouble speaking English, because when the movie had dialogue added in 1929, she was no longer billed at all! Also note that Clara Bow was the most famous "flapper girl" of the mid to late 1920s (she became known as "The It Girl" after the character she played based on the popular novel by Elinor Glyn). She had a major role in Wings, and was Paramount's biggest star at that time. But she had a notorious private life and seemingly "settled down" when she married cowboy star Rex Bell in 1931 (she had two children and she retired from movies), but sadly in 1949 she went into a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt (she had had psychiatric issues for quite some time) and she was released but never returned to her family, and lived alone until her death in 1965. 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 we have never before auctioned this program, which was created for the Criterion Theatre in New York City! Also note that there is an oddity about this program. In all the other items from the first release of this movie we have seen, Gary Cooper is billed either fourth or fifth, but did not receive equal billing to the top stars until 1929. But in this program, which is definitely from March 1928, because it has a separate sheet advertising the upcoming Paramount Motion Picture Ball on March 23, 1928), he is billed seventh, so we don't know if that is because the movie starting playing at this theater at the very beginning of its run, and that they showed it for a year or more and never updated the billing (see our image). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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