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Auction History Result J081 GAUCHO herald '27 Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Date Sold 4/13/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 3 1/2" x 6") (Learn More) The Gaucho, the 1927 F. Richard Jones silent romantic south-of-the-border crime adventure religious melodrama ("The peerless 'Doug' in his fastest moving picture"; Fairbanks is an outlaw who lives by a shrine to the Madonna, and after religious people come to the shrine and leave offerings, he plans to steals the money, but he falls for Lupe Velez, and, after the Madonna herself appears to him in a vision [cleverly played in an unbilled cameo by his wife, the angelic Mary Pickford!], Fairbanks undergoes a religious conversion, and stops his life of crime!) starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (in the title role "as The Gaucho"), Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz, and Mary Pickford (in an unbilled cameo role!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: This herald was folded in half at one time as was originally intended. Note that this herald was used in a theater in India, and has been overprinted with Indian writing on the back, but that the rest of the herald is in English. The Indian writing was added after the herald was first printed. In the 1930s, American movies were sent all over the world and countries would overprint the backs of heralds with writing in their own language that told where and when the movie would be shown. Condition: good to very good. ink pen writing in the image area at right on the inside of the herald; some minor creases, smudges, and scuffs throughout the herald (more so along the foldline and around the edges) Learn More about condition grades 
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