From the Southern California estate sale of a silent film collector! Very hard to find original silent film movie theater herald for SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE.
Shadows and Sunshine is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and starring Marie Osborne, Leon Pardue and Lucy Payton.
MARIE OSBORNE YEATS (born Helen Alice Myres; November 5, 1911 – November 11, 2010), credited as BABY MARIE between 1914 and 1919, was the first major child star of American silent films. She was one of the three major American child stars of the Hollywood silent film era along with Jackie Coogan and Diana Serra Cary. As an adult, from 1934 until 1950, and now billed as Marie Osborne, she continued in film productions, although she appeared only in uncredited roles. In the 1950s, after retiring from the acting profession, she carved out a second career as a costume designer for Hollywood film.
Osborne was born as Helen Alice Myres in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Roy and Mary Myres. She soon became — under mysterious circumstances — the child of Leon and Edith Osborn, who called her Marie and added the "e" to the surname, apparently to obscure the adoption. Her foster parents, the Osbornes, introduced their daughter to silent films when they left Colorado to work at Balboa Studios in Long Beach, California. Osborne made her debut credited as Baby Osbourne in 1914's short drama film Kidnapped in New York.
Osborne signed to a lucrative contract with Balboa Films (and working with director Henry King and writer Clara Beranger), by the age of five she was starring in silent films, including her best remembered movie, Little Mary Sunshine, from 1916, one of her few films which still survive on celluloid. Some of her other films are Maid of the Wild (1915), Sunshine and Gold (1917), What Baby Forgot (1917), Daddy's Girl (1918), The Locked Heart (1918), Winning Grandma (1918), The Sawdust Doll (1919), and Daddy Number Two (1919). At the age of eight, she completed her final film as a child star, Miss Gingersnap in 1919. In all, she was featured or starred in 29 films in a six-year period. Most of her films were produced at Diando Studios, the former Kalem Movie Studio in Glendale, California.
Marie Osborne as Little Mary
Leon Pardue as Shadows
Lucy Payton as Little Mary's Mother
Daniel Gilfether as Gilbert Jackson
Mollie McConnell as Amelia Jackson
R. Henry Grey as Undetermined Role
Henry King as Undetermined Role
This herald was from The Butler theater in Tonopah, Nevada. When opened up completely it’s 6.3 x 6.7 inches. Used condition, fold mark, wear & tear, etc. Please examine the images closely and ask any questions before purchasing. Shipped flat, solid and secure, inside of an archival quality extra thick 2 mil Crystal Clear resealable protective closure bag sleeve. Inventory# silentfilmcollection.