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Auction History Result 1h0875 WAGES OF VIRTUE linen pre-war Belgian 1925 art of Gloria Swanson w/knife & soldiers, rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1925 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 23 3/4" x 32 3/4" [60 x 83 cm]) (Learn More) Wages of Virtue, the 1924 Allan Dwan silent romantic love triangle circus French Foreign Legion melodrama (based on the novel by Percival Wren; about a circus strongman who saves a pretty girl from drowning and she joins his sideshow, but his assistant falls for her, and the man kills his assistant and runs off with her, and joins the French Foreign Legion, and he becomes the owner of a cafe; an American falls in love with her, and when she discovers that her strongman boyfriend is going to marry a rich widow, she encourages the American; the two men have a fight and she gets in the middle of it and stabs the strongman to death, but the other Legionnaires say that he was killed by Arabs, which frees her to be with the American) starring Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Norman Trevor, Ivan Linow, and Armand Cortez. Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 is a rare "pre-War" Belgian poster, which we have never auctioned before! Prior to World War II, Belgian posters were much larger than the ones from after the war, and they are extremely rare (because during WWII, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and they took virtually every poster and map, and printed new posters on the backs of them!). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had stains in the "CI" of "CINEMA" at top left. It had minor wear on the folds and tiny pinholes in the corners, with a tiny bit of paper loss in the lower right blank border. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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