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Auction History Result 3j0670 FORBIDDEN CITY linen Swedish 1920 great different profile art of Norma Talmadge, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1920 (from the first release of this movie in Sweden) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Swedish Movie Poster (measures 23 1/2" x 35" [60 x 89 cm]) (Learn More) The Forbidden City, the 1918 Sidney A. Franklin silent romantic Asian forbidden interracial romantic melodrama (one of an endless number of such movies that were so popular in the late 1910s and early 1920s, with non-Asians playing all the Asian roles; Talmadge is the daughter of a rich Chinese man in China, who is in love with the U.S. ambassador, and she secretly marries him, and her father gives her to the Emperor, and when he finds out she has had a child with a white man has Talmadge killed; when their daughter grows up, she is also played by Talmadge, and she escapes to Manila where she meets a white soldier and falls in love, and they too are forbidden to marry; as luck would have it, her lover works for her father, who had no idea he had a child, and once he learns she is his daughter, he gives his blessing to their marriage) starring Norma Talmadge, Thomas Meighan, E. Allyn Warren, Michael Rayle, and L. Rogers Lytton 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a few lobby cards and a glass slide from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this Swedish poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had pretty minor fold wear, with a few pinholes and tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style" onto a thin linen with no excess, meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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