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Auction History Result p010 STOLEN MOMENTS English 20x25 movie poster '20 Rudolph Valentino Date Sold 10/3/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Special English Pressbook (measures 20" x 25") (Learn More) Stolen Moments, the 1920 James Vincent silent romantic blackmail crime melodrama ("Written by H. Thompson Rich") starring Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino (billed as "Rudolf Valentine"), Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson, Arthur Earle, and Aileen Pringle. In this movie, Valentino plays a real cad! He is a Brazilian visiting the deep south where he romances a woman and she breaks her engagement and goes to South America with him, only to discover he has no intention of marrying her. She returns home, and later he turns up, trying to blackmail her, and he is killed, and suspicion falls on the woman, but it turns out he was killed by the brother of a different woman he jilted. Note that when this movie was released in 1920, Marguerite Namara was the star of this movie, and Valentino was not well known (and he was billed as "Rudolf Valentine"!). But the following year, he had a part in "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", in which he was not prominently billed, but that role made him a major star, which quickly led to several other movies, including "The Sheik", also in 1921. At that point (late 1921 or early 1922), this movie was re-released, and Valentino was now top billed (as "Rodolph Valentino", as he was billed in some 1922 movies), and poor Maguerite Namara was no longer billed at all! Movie paper from this title has always been incredibly rare. Prior to 2018, the only poster that we had auctioned was an English three-sheet, from the early re-release described above. In 2018, we auctioned a title card from the U.S. re-release described above (which is the only U.S. paper we have auctioned). 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: This sheet is printed entirely on one side, but was folded twice and likely inserted into the regular pressbook for this movie, although it may have been distributed separately by itself as well. The sheet gives just about everything you would want to know about the movie, including a long synopsis, the cast, and even "musical suggestions" for the person playing the musical accompaniment. If anyone knows more about this special English pressbook, please contact us and we will post it here. Condition: very good. The pressbook has tears and small areas of paper loss in the upper half of the left border (only black white paper is affected). There are creases and scuffs across the center, most notably in the lower part of the image of Valentino. Learn More about condition grades 
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