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Auction History Result 2s069 BELLA DONNA linen French 12x35 1923 art of femme fatale Pola Negri, deadly to her husbands! Date Sold 12/10/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French Movie Poster (measures 12 1/4" x 34 3/4" [31 x 88 cm]) (Learn More) Bella Donna, the 1923 George Fitzmaurice silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("From the famous novel by Robert Hichens"; about a femme fatale European woman who is married, but she attracts much attention from other men, and her husband kills one of them, and he is convicted of that murder; she then marries an engineer, and they go to Egypt, where she has an affair with an Egyptian man who convinces her to poison her husband; she does it slowly, and while he is very ill, she goes to her lover only to find him with another woman; she returns to her husband, but he has found her out, and he is being nursed back to health by his former girlfriend; devastated, she goes into the desert alone, where she is enveloped by a sandstorm!) starring Pola Negri ("Her first American made picture"; in the title role as Bella Donna), Conway Tearle, Conrad Nagel, Adolphe Menjou, Claude King, Lois Wilson, Macy Harlem, and Robert Schable. Note that this film was shown in the "DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process", but only when the movie premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. 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 this French poster greatly resembles a U.S. insert, both in size and in format. We were not aware that there were ever French movie posters like this until we were consigned this poster and another one from a different silent movie (which we are offering in a separate auction)! Also note that first release 1923 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a single window card from this movie until we received this French poster (which may well have the same or a very similar image to that of the U.S. insert, which we have never auctioned)! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was folded like a U.S. insert and it had minor wear on those folds. It had a few tiny pinholes around the edges, with a few within the image. It had a tiny dot stain on Negri's nose at top center and a 1 1/2" tear in the left of the bottom border, and two creases or tears in the left of the top border that very slightly entered the background. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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