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Auction History Result m575 VANITY FAIR movie lobby card '23 Hugo & Mabel Ballin Date Sold 11/30/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Vanity Fair, the 1923 Hugo Ballin (he was married to the star of the movie, Mabel Ballin) silent England romantic social climbing melodrama (based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray; set in Victorian England; about a young woman from humble beginnings who longs to greatly better herself, and she does that through going from one man to another, but things don't work out exactly as she had hoped) starring Mabel Ballin (as Becky Sharp), Hobart Bosworth, Harrison Ford (not the same Harrison Ford that we know as an actor today, but a very popular leading man of the 1920s), George Walsh, Bobby Mack, Earle Fox, Mrs. Cranfurd Kent, Adele Roland, and Eleanor Boardman. Note that this movie included one sequence filmed in color by Prizmacolor, and it was remade by Rouben Mamoulian in 1935 as "Becky Sharp", starring Miriam Hopkins in the title role, and that movie was the very first feature movie in Technicolor! Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. If the plot of this movie seems remarkably similar to Barry Lyndon (except with the genders switched), it is because the same author (Thackeray) wrote both novels! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is a hand-colored card. In the days of silent movies prior to the invention of good quality full-color printing, studios would have lobby cards printed in black and white and then amazingly would hire women to hand-color the cards one at a time (apparently labor was very cheap at the time)! So, each card is colored slightly differently, and the coloring is never a perfect match. Condition: very good. see below for why we don't describe the defects of this item in words Learn More about condition grades 
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