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Auction History Result 5b0900 WINGS LC 1928 super close portrait of uniformed Clara Bow used on the window card, rare! Date Sold 9/26/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (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. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this great card, and it sold for $1,025! Note that this card is from the rare very first lobby card set, which is printed on a linen-like paper (like the Warner Bros. lobby cards a decade later). There are lobby cards from this movie from 1928, a year later, which are NOT on linen paper, and which do not include all the same scenes. Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. The card has darkened, typical of Paramount linen lobby cards of this period. There is paper loss in the top left blank corner. There is a tear in the right of the bottom border that was repaired with white tape from the back. There is a long diagonal scuff in the left of the image that runs through part of Bow's forehead, but misses her eyebrow, and it goes in her hair to the top border and down the left in the background above her shoulder. The scuff is mostly only noticeable when the card is tilted to the light. The card is not very fragile, which is unusual with linen lobby cards from the 1920s. Other than the tape, it has had no restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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