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Auction History Result 2b256 BIG PARADE linen insert 1925 King Vidor, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree, World War I classic, rare Date Sold 12/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Big Parade, the classic 1925 King Vidor silent romantic World War I (WWI) American-soldiers-in-France military melodrama ("It's here! The film that you'll call the best you ever saw"; "Story by Laurence Stallings"; "King Vidor's production of Lawrence Stallings' great motion picture story following his stage success with 'What Price Glory'"; about an all-American boy who enlists in the Army in World War I, and he and his friends have a great time until they are thrust into combat, and the movie shows the horrors of war in a way that had not been done before, and the boy returns home after losing a leg; there is also a romantic subplot with the American G.I. having a brief affair with a beautiful French girl) starring John Gilbert ("The Star"), Renee Adoree ("as Melisande"), Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Robert Ober, Tom O'Brien, Karl Dane, and Rosita Martini. Note that MGM had no idea what they had when this movie was being made, but King Vidor was able to sell them on the potential of the movie, and convince them to spend a huge amount of money filming authentic battle scenes, and the movie was a major critical and financial success! 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 we have never before auctioned this 1925 first release insert! We can't explain why this one size poster is seemingly much more rare than the other size first release posters (because we have auctioned almost all the others), but it definitely is! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The left 1" of the poster was trimmed off. It was only blank white paper, except for the small area in the bottom left, where the bottom bar extended slightly into that area. It also had paper loss in three areas of the bottom blank border and in two areas of the top border. There were tears in the bottom border, extending into the inset circle and the yellow box. There were tears in the top border extending into the top image, with two long tears extending into the top image. There was a 2" tear in the lower right border and some small tears in the rest of the right border. There were stains at the bottom of the "D" of "PARADE" in the title and smudges and scuffs in the yellow area. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, given its defects, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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