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Auction History Result 5p1094 THIEF IN PARADISE linen long Aust daybill 1925 Davies art of Ronald Colman & Kenyon, rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 14 3/4" x 40" [37 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) A Thief in Paradise, the 1925 George Fitzmaurice silent Samoa California tropical island romantic love triangle mistaken identity inheritance pearl diver melodrama ("The great polo match between blondes and brunettes in bathing suits"; "Adapted by Frances Marion from Leonard Merrick's novel 'The Worldlings'"; a wild story of the son of a San Francisco millionaire who has been disinherited by his father; he goes to Samoa and becomes friend with a poor pearl diver; he is killed in an accident and the pearl diver's half-breed wife convinces him to go to San Francisco and pretend to be the millionaire's son, in the hopes of gaining his inheritance; he fools the father, who forgives him, but when he falls in love with the dead man's long-ago girlfriend, his half-breed wife reveals the deception!) starring Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle, Claude Gillingwater, and Alec Francis. 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. Artist: Wynne W. Davies Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Australian daybill! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had two tears in the upper left extending into the man's hair and one of the fingers. It had a tear in the middle right that extended into the woman's hair. It had some smudges and stains around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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