Rare Original Vintage Movie Theater Proram
WINGS, 1927
Starring Clara Bow
Where spectacular art meets historic film making
Why is this Vintage Movie Theater Program so Extraordinary?
This early 20th century Museum Grade Treasure has the honorary distinction of being the first Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture!
Simply breath-taking silent era movie program for the iconic First Ever Academy Award winning aviation film, "Wings"
This wonderful program has full-color images throughout, including great ones of the top stars and top cast.
NOTE: We also have a Stunning vintage lobby card from this 1927 iconic film. The Best Card of the set, the Clara Bow Close-up.
Condition: Excellent+ condition You'll be hard pressed to find another 100 year old movie program in this amazing pristine condition.
* See several enlargeable images
Wings (Paramount, 1927). Movie Program (9x12")
In 1927, Clara Bow reached the heights of her popularity with the film "It." In that same year she starred in "Wings," a war picture largely rewritten to accommodate her, as she was Paramount's biggest star at the time. The film went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture. The card shows almost no handling wear and is in excellent condition.
"WINGS" was billed as "An Epic of the Air," starring Clara Bow, Buddy Rogers, and Richard Arlen. The picture was honored with the very first Best Picture Academy Award in 1929 (then referred to as the "Best Production" award). It is also notable for a brief but memorable appearance by a young Gary Cooper. Arlen had been a fighter pilot in World War I, and Rogers learned to fly during the course of the picture, as filming closeup scenes required the actors, during the flying scenes, to not only fly the planes, but operate the motorized cameras, act, and land safely as well. The result is an engaging film, as thrilling today as it was when it was previewed in San Antonio in 1927.
Starring Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Gary Cooper, Henry B. Walthall, and Roscoe Karns. Directed by William A. Wellman.
