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Auction History Result 4s151 HIS JAZZ BRIDE WC '26 sexy musical art of flapper Marie Prevost in skimpy wedding gown! Date Sold 4/14/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 13 3/4" x 21") (Learn More) His Jazz Bride, the silent 1926 Herman Raymaker romantic musical melodrama ("Adapted from 'The Flapper Wife'"; "Story by Beatrice Burton"; about a young woman who is bored by marriage, and who goes on a cruise with a friend, but then the boat sinks, and her boring husband rescues her, and she realizes that she should give up her silly ideas and become a housewife!) starring Marie Prevost, Matt Moore, Gayne Whitman, John Patrick and Mabel Julienne Scott. Note that Marie Prevost was a Mack Sennett "Bathing Beauty" in 1917 while still a teenager, and she became a star in the early 1920s, and was a favorite of director Ernst Lubitsch who cast her in three of his comedy films; The Marriage Circle (1924), Three Women (1924) and Kiss Me Again (1925). But with the advent of sound, her career started downhill, and she began drinking heavily and binge eating, which did not help her career any. In 1937 her body was discovered, and it is believe she died from acute alcoholism, and her pet dog at that time, a dachshund was with her. She would just be one of hundreds of forgotten Hollywood celebrities who had meteoric rises and falls except that Kenneth Anger in his book Hollywood Babylon chose to include the false story of her having been found half-eaten by her dachshund (clearly Anger subscribed to the Liberty Valance school of journalism: "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend", and of course such tawdry stories sell millions of books). 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: Note that this window card has been trimmed and it now measures 13 3/4" x 21". This window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: fair. An indeterminate amount was trimmed from the left of the card (it would seem to be 1/4", but then there would have been no blank border on the left to speak of, so it could have been a greater amount, but it likely barely cut into the edge of the image, in any event). 1" was trimmed from the bottom of the card. There are tears and areas of paper loss in the bottom border and water stains in the top blank area. The card has very real defects, but certainly, it could be displayed and enjoyed just as it is, or a restorer could paperback the card and make it look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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