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Auction History Result 6y0088 FASHIONS FOR WOMEN style B linen 1sh 1927 Esther Ralston & Hatton, Dorothy Arzner, ultra rare Date Sold 12/22/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Fashions for Women, the 1927 Dorothy Arzner silent romantic model mistaken identity melodrama ("From the play 'The Girl of the Hour' by Gladys B. Unger from the French of Paul Armont and Leopold Marchand"; about a famous fashion model who decides to have cosmetic surgery, and she is supposed to appear afterwards at a major show, but the surgery is delayed, and she hires a lookalike to take her place, and the lookalike tries to start a romance posing as the famous model, but she doesn't know that the man she is romancing actually knows the model personally and is aware she is a fake!) starring Esther Ralston (in a dual role!), Raymond Hatton, Einar Hanson, Edward Martindel, and William Orlamond. Like most of director Arzner's movies, this one dealt with a very independent woman who "goes her own way" in life! Also note that Dorothy Arzner was a director from the 1920s to the 1940s, and she was the only woman director during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood ('20s to '40s) and she was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America. Arzner was a lesbian at a time when almost no females openly were, and she was surprisingly open about it, often dressing in "men's clothes" and wearing her hair short. She made many "women's movies" and movies with a "feminist" theme. After making "First Comes Courage" in 1943, she made training films for the U.S. Army WACs, and she never returned to making Hollywood movies, becoming a film teacher of directing and screenwriting, teaching at UCLA until her passing in 1979. 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. 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 herald, a still, and a glass slide from this movie (and NO other movie paper) until we received this one-sheet! Note that this poster was created at a time when Paramount was experimenting with their one-sheets. They created some one-sheets with blank areas at the bottom where the theater could either print information about the show times (like with window cards, except the blank area was not separate from the main image, but was part of the image background), or they could provide information about what else they were showing that day, or any other information that they wanted to provide. This was solely done for some 1926 and 1927 Paramount movies and no others. This poster is one of those special one-sheets from that time (see our image). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the top two crossfolds. It had pretty minor wear on the folds. It had a faint scuff mark running from the back of the man's head, across the background to the right border. It had a few pinholes and tiny areas of paper loss in the blank borders. It had unevenness to the background in a few areas that looks to be part of the printing. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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