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Auction History Result 8j525 MISLEADING WIDOW LC '19 close up of Billie Burke with leg in cast between two women! Date Sold 11/12/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) The Misleading Widow, the 1919 John S. Robertston silent romantic comedy farce ("Adapted From 'Billeted' By F. Tennyson Jesse and H.M. Harwood"; "Scenario by Frances Marion"; "The typewriter used by Miss Burke is a Corona, the personal writing machine"; about a woman who runs up huge bills buying fancy clothes, and to pay her debts, she reports her husband dead, and collects the insurance, but he has not actually died, only left, and she begins renting a room to a bachelor, and her husband returns disguised and rents another room, and she has romantic and legal complications dealing with the two men and a busybody scandalized neighbor!) starring Billie Burke ("By Arrangement with Florenz Ziegfeld Jr."), James Crane, Frank Mills, Madelyn Clare, and Fred Hearn. Billie Burke was a top star who was married to Florenz Ziegfeld, so that explains why she was credited in the above way. And of course, two decades later, she would become Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz! 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. Condition: good. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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