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Auction History Result f308 BE MY WIFE linen one-sheet movie poster '21 Max Linder comedy short! Date Sold 4/3/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Be My Wife, the 1921 Max Linder silent romantic slapstick comedy short ("Written and Directed by Max Linder"; "His Latest Comedy") starring Max Linder, Alta Allen, Caroline Rankin, Lincoln Stedman, and Rose Dione. Note that this was one of the seven movies Max Linder made in America after he was a victim of mustard gas in World War I, which severely weakened him. In 1925, he returned to France, and he and his wife jointly committed suicide. Linder was a giant of early French cinema, and he pre-dated Charlie Chaplin and the other great silent American comedians, all of whom were greatly influenced by his work! 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: In the late 1910s through the early 1930s, MGM (and sometimes Paramount and a couple of other studios) would often make a regular one-sheet for a movie and, instead of a second style regular one-sheet, would instead make a special "rotogravure" one-sheet. Named after the rotogravure picture sections at the time popular in Sunday newspapers, these one-sheets would be printed in a single color, often sepia, but sometimes other colors, and they would usually incorporate pictorial images from the movie combined in a montage fashion. Very few rotogravure one-sheet have survived, since they were printed on the same paper stock used in newspapers of the time, and the paper is very fragile and often darkens. Condition: good to very good. The poster had tears in the middle left of Linder's face at top left. There was a small U-shaped tear in the forehead of the man next to Linder at top right. There were some water stains in the bottom of the poster, mostly in the white background areas. Someone once wrote play dates in the bottom blank border, and someone either lightened them, or they faded over time. The person who backed the poster pretty much just backed it "as is", doing no restoration. It displays pretty well as it is, but if I owned this poster, I would surely have it professionally re-backed. Its defects are mostly small or in the background, and are the type that respond well to restoration. After proper re-backing, this poster would look fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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