From the Southern California estate sale of a silent film collector! Very hard to find original silent film movie theater herald for PRUNELLA.
"This is a rare picture from a beautiful highly imaginative story, told on the screen as only dainty little Marguerite Clark knows how to tell it. New York surged to the doors of the theater in an unbroken line when Marguerite Clark appeared on the stage in "Prunella." Now with pictorial effects and with a splendor that the screen alone can portray, she has produced a marvel photoplay."
Prunella is a 1918 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by Maurice Tourneur. The film is based on the 1906 play Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Baker, and stars Marguerite Clark in the title role. Clark also starred in the 1913 Winthrop Ames produced Broadway stage production on which the film is based. The majority of the film is considered lost, with only fragments still in existence.
As described in a film magazine, Prunella (Clark), who lives in a garden with her three aunts Prim (Berwin), Prude (Harris) and Privacy (Cecil), is carefully guarded from the outside world until the day a troupe of travelling players comes to town. Pierrot (Raucourt), the leader, creeps into the garden and captivates Prunella's heart. She runs off with him and becomes his Pierrette. For two years they wander from country to country. Pierrot tires of his marriage vows and runs away. He finds what a miserable thing life is without her, and he returns to the Dutch gardens and finds her, is forgiven, and they live on, presumably in blissful happiness.
Marguerite Clark as Prunella
Isabel Berwin as Prim
Nora Cecil as Privacy
William J. Gross as The Gardener
Marcia Harris as Prude
Charles Hartley as The Gardener
Arthur Kennedy as The Gardener's Boy
Henry Leoni as Scaramel
Jules Raucourt (Fr) as Pierrot
A. Voorhees Wood as The Gardener
This herald was from The Butler Theater in Tonopah, Nevada. When opened up completely it’s 8 x 11 inches. Used condition. Please examine the images closely and ask any questions before purchasing. Shipped flat, solid and secure. Inventory# silentfilmcollection.
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