eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result w337 WINGS movie title lobby card '27 Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers, Arlen Date Sold 4/11/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (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: The lobby card was significantly stained throughout. Someone bleached the card heavily, and it gave the card a "whiter than white" look in the border areas. The bleaching did not completely remove the staining, and the restorer applied a great deal of touch up paint to the solid red and yellow areas, and in the white borders. The images of the stars did not have very much touch up done to them. There was tiny paper loss in three corners, which was repaired from the back with tape and there was a 1" tear in the middle of the left border, which was also repaired with tape from the back. This card has had substantial restoration, so please do not bid on it unless you can accept the restoration it has had! Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades
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