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Auction History Result 9m0667 NEW LIVES FOR OLD linen 1sh 1925 art of Betty Compson, a dancer leading two lives, ultra rare Date Sold 8/8/2021 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) New Lives For Old, the 1925 Clarence G. Badger silent spy espionage romantic melodrama ( "The love drama of a Parisian dancer who leads two lives"; based on the play by Emile Augier; a wild story of a Parisian cabaret dancer who poses as a peasant girl and becomes engaged to an American captain at the end of World War I; she becomes a spy for the French Secret Service, but because it appears she is having an affair with a German officer, the people think she is a traitor; she goes to America and marries her captain, but she meets the German officer at a party, and she denounces him as a spy, and he reveals she was a cabaret dancer, but she is given the Legion of Honor, so she becomes a hero) starring Betty Compson, Wallace MacDonald, Theodore Kosloff, Sheldon Lewis, and Jack Joyce. 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 U.S. herald and a Danish poster from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the bottom two crossfolds and some separation in the right of the middle horizontal fold and in the left 4" of the bottom horizontal fold. There was a 5" diagonal tear running through the leg of the chair and into the background at lower left. There were tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss in the right half of the bottom horizontal fold and a 2" semi-circular tear in the right of the bottom fold. There were pinholes in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to 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. Certainly, this extremely rare poster could be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or any talented professional could perform restoration to the above defects, with or without re-backing it. However the new buyer chooses to deal with this, this poster will display well on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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