Vintage 8x10 in. US double-weight glossy copy photograph (not a vintage original photo printed at the time it was taken but one that was printed at a later time) from the silent film WWI drama, THE LITTLE AMERICAN, released in 1917 by Artcraft pictures Corporation and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Mary Pickford stars as a young American who has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat
but makes it back to ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German
brutality firsthand.
The image features a dramatic exterior close shot of American Angela Moore (Mary Pickford) as she looks solemnly at Karl von Austreim (Jack Holt), a German, through a barbed-wire fence. While the image quality is somewhat grainy, this is a rare image from the film. Printed on double-weight stock with a glossy finish, this vintage copy photograph is in fine-condition with several creases of varying sizes on the center of the left border and random signs of wear in the other borders.
Provenance: The Collection of Robert Cushman (who was one of the top two collectors on Mary Pickford and worked at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California).