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Auction History Result #4798 SILVER WINGS LC '22 John Ford Date Sold 4/8/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Silver Wings, the 1922 Edwin Carewe & John Ford (billed as "Jack Ford"; he only directed the prologue) silent family relationship inheritance embezzlement melodrama ("Mary Carr scores again!"; "Direct from 3 months run Apollo Theatre, New York"; a complicated story of a wife of an inventor who becomes rich, but after he dies, his wife must run his business, and she has the oldest of her six adult children help her, and one of them steals money from the business, and the other is blamed, and the mother sells everything she has to cover her son's debt) starring Mary Carr, Lynn Hammond, Knox Kincaid, Maybeth Carr, and Joseph Monahan. Note that the movie opens with a prologue showing the family when the children are young, and director John Ford directed this prologue, and two of Mary Carr's real life children played roles in this prologue! Note that Mary Carr became a major star in the mid 1910s around the age of 40, playing the parts of saintly mothers. She continued to make movies (switching to grandmother roles) through the mid 1930s, and then continued with mostly uncredited parts until the mid 1950s. She passed away in 1973 at the age of 99! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this scene depicts the type of melodrama John Ford later became famous for (a family gathered around a saintly mother in a rocking chair)! Condition: very good to fine. a few tack holes around the edges of the card; card has darkened somewhat with age to a brownish color Learn More about condition grades 
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