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VALLEY OF THE GIANTS ('19) VALLEY OF THE GIANTS ('19) LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result 8k0713 VALLEY OF THE GIANTS TC 1919 Wallace Reid made this when he became a drug addict, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/29/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Valley of the Giants, the 1919 James Cruze silent Northern California logging lumberjack romantic melodrama ("Down in the marvelous redwood country where giants of forest and a manhood are bred, fights red-blooded men, loves a virile woman and honors a precious memory. See it!"; based on the book "by Peter B. Kyne"; about a son of a lumberjack who owns a major logging area nicknamed "The Valley of the Giants"; the wife and mother of the men is buried there, and they swear to never sell the land, but they fall on dire times, and a competitor wants to buy the land, and the son of the lumberjack manages to not only expose the competitor as a crook and save the land, but he also marries the competitor's daughter!) starring Wallace Reid, Grace Darmond, William Brunton, Charles Ogle and Ralph Lewis. Note that Wallace Reid was a top star in the early 1910s, and he met Dorothy Davenport, who was a young starlet who had also made movies in the early 1910s, and they then made many movies together, marrying in 1913. In 1917, she had their son, and she made few movies after that. In 1919, Wallace Reid was making this very movie, and he was injured during a train scene, and was given morphine to enable him to finish filming. He became a major drug addict, and made 24 movies over the next 3 years, but died in 1923 at the age of 31, and it is unclear exactly how large a part drugs and alcohol played in his death, but certainly this was one of the first great Hollywood drug scandals. The following year, Davenport produced "Human Wreckage", an expose of Hollywood and drugs, billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid", and the next year, she made "The Red Kimono", and she made a total of six movies after "Human Wreckage", always billed the same way. In 1934, she retired and she died in 1977 at the age of 82. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this title card! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. Note that in the days immediately following World War I, there were a huge amount of returning veterans who could not find jobs, and labor was cheap and plentiful. This likely explains why the studios began hand-coloring lobby cards, and they also would sometimes have glitter applied to the letters of the title card! This was incredibly time consuming, because it was done to every single card one by one (in the case of the glitter, the person would apply glue to the letters, then shake glitter over the card, and let it dry, just as we all did in kindergarten!). As economic conditions improved in the country, and as printing technology also improved, these methods of decorating cards vanished! Other than the glitter, the card is in nice condition! There is an extremely tiny piece of tape on the back of each top corner, but they were not put there for a restoration purpose. Learn More about condition grades 
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