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Auction History Result 4g294 NIGHT LIFE linen rotogravure 1sh '27 reformed pickpocket Alice Day in Vienna finds true love! Date Sold 12/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Rotogravure One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Night Life, the 1927 George Archainbaud silent Vienna Austria crime romantic melodrama ("On the ferris wheel"; "'You'll come with me'"; "'This is the life'"; "'Herr Max, The Magician'"; "No more smokes"; Europe was in a major Depression in the late 1920s, before the U.S. had theirs, and this movie focuses on down and out people in Vienna during that time; two men who are best friends are down and out, and one becomes a thief, and he convinces his friend to join him, but after the friend meets a poor girl who is a pickpocket, they fall in love, and she goes straight and becomes a waitress, and she convinces her lover to quit stealing, and the other friend is angry, and has her arrested for a crime he committed, but ultimately, he takes the blame, and the lovers are able to start a new life together) starring Alice Day, John Harron, Eddie Gribbon, Walter Hiers, Lionel Braham, Patricia Avery, Archduke Leopold of Austria (he was a real life Austrian nobleman with a distant claim on the Spanish throne, but his family fell on hard times, and in the late 1920s, he moved to Hollywood to try to have a career in movies, but he only got three small roles, including this one; he was arrested for selling a stolen necklace in 1930 that had been a gift from Napoleon, and he moved to Connecticut, where he married and worked as a factory worker the rest of his life, passing away in 1958!), and Earl Metcalf. Note that you likely have never heard of male lead John Harron! He was one of ten children from an Irish family, and his older brother Robert was a silent star. But Robert died mysteriously in 1920, and John kind of "inherited" his career while still a teenager! But he didn't have the success of his older brother, although he made a number of movies in the 1920s. But the coming of sound meant his career was mostly over, although he continued in small roles. In 1939, he developed spinal meningitis, and died, and he was just 36, leaving a wife and young daughter. 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: In the late 1910s through the early 1930s, MGM (and sometimes Paramount and a couple of other studios) would often make a regular one-sheet for a movie and, instead of a second style regular one-sheet, would instead make a special "rotogravure" one-sheet. Named after the rotogravure picture sections at the time popular in Sunday newspapers, these one-sheets would be printed in a single color, often sepia, but sometimes other colors, and they would usually incorporate pictorial images from the movie combined in a montage fashion. Very few rotogravure one-sheet have survived, since they were printed on the same paper stock used in newspapers of the time, and the paper is very fragile and often darkens. Also note that this poster measures 28 1/4" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was folded in half an extra time and there were creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of several foldlines, with some minor wear around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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