D.W. Griffith LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS 1929 Lupe Velez, William Boyd, Jetta Goudal

Description

This is a vintage original 11x14 in. US lobby card from the silent film drama/romance,
LADY OF THE PAVEMENTS
, released at the end of the Silent Era in 1929 by United Artists and
directed by D.W. Griffith
.
Karl (William Boyd), a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane (Jetta Goudal), has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant hi his wish and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer (Lupe Velez) from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.
The image features an interior medium shot of Countess Diane des Granges (
Jetta Goudal
) looking smug after revealing that the beautiful Nanon del Rayon (
Lupe Velez
) is really a "girl of the streets" and not the
sophisticated
singer that
Count Karl Von Arnim (
William Boyd
) thought she was, which devastates him since he has fallen in love with her. The border artwork at the left features a beautifully-rendered image of a Paris street scene as a horse and carriage proceed on the cobblestone street. The color tints are rich and vibrant with various shades of blue. This vintage original lobby card is unrestored in very good condition with a vertical crease down the center of the card; some age stains in the top border near and at the right corner; a 2 in. long water stain on the top of the right border beneath the corner; signs of discoloration in the center of the right border; some smudging in the bottom of the right border with signs of wear on the tip of the bottom right corner; and a small smudge in the left border near the top of the building in the border art.
Please note
: This lobby card was used by an orchestra to hold sheet music while playing for a silent film. It was folded down the middle and the name of a single and the tempo it was to be played at were handwritten in pencil on the top right of the verso. The card was folded and the sheet music placed inside. We have come across other lobby cards with this same vertical foldline and handwritten notations in the top right corner.
Although issued with a synchronized musical score, some dialogue sequences, and one Irving Berlin song sung by Lupe Velez, the soundtrack for this film, recorded on disc, is thought to have vanished. Sound discs 6 and 8 are preserved in the UCLA Film and Television Archives but where other sound discs are at this time is unknown. The film itself survives in the Mary Pickford Archives.