Poster Artists Could Get Carried Away At Times
The Love Mart ( 1927 ). The artist that worked on the above U.S. lobby card let his imagination take over from what was clearly visible before him to copy.
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Considering that Billie Dove was not a blonde, with long cascading locks going down her back, and as this image was used on the lower, left corner of the lobby cards, Im of the thinking that the artist decided to "push the envelope." And to make this generic image a bit more alluring & titillating (no pun intended).
The Love Mart
Benjamin Glazer
Edwin Justus Mayer
Gilbert Roland
The Love Mart is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and featuring Boris Karloff. The film is lost.[1][2][3]
Cast
Production
This film had the original title of Louisiana, as surviving publicity materials indicate; it was First National Pictures' production #103.[4]
Survival status
No copies of this film are currently known to exist. However, the Library of Congress has preserved some footage related to the production featuring Billie Dove. The purpose of the footage appears to have been to test some of Dove's hairstyles for the film. Still frames taken from this 'Hair Test' were posted on internet forums in February, 2012.
silentfilm
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Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:25 pm
(Thanks to George for allowing me to share these pictures.)
The Love Mart is a lost film. It would be interesting to see for a several reasons. First of all, Boris Karloff had an early role in this film as a slave master or auctioneer.
Karloff's photos go quite high on eBay, but I think that he's the guy in the big black hat under the window here.
Since the film dealth with the selling of slaves, it would have been interesting to see how it dealt with the topic of slavery and how it treated its black characters. On this postcard, Raymond Turner is identified next to Gilbert Roland. The plot had to do with Noah Beery getting revenge on Billie Dove's father by declaring that she is an "octoroon" (one-eighth African American) and she is sold in the slave market.
And of course it had the beautiful Billie Dove as the star (with Noah Beery), getting billed over Gilbert Roland.
Billie Dove, Emile Chautard and Gilbert Roland.
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
entredeuxguerres
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:08 pm
Gagman 66
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Mon Feb 13, 2012 9:32 pm
This is wonderful! It would be nice if TCM would dust off at least one of Billie's surviving First National Silents. Maybe THE TENDER HOUR, or SENSATION SEEKERS. Does THE AMERICAN BEAUTY exist?
Gagman 66
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:04 pm
Interestingly enough, when I hit auto contrast and auto brightness, this was the result. No tint of any kind has been added, but suddenly it looks like faded Two-color Technicolor. I could have spruced this up some more, but other than removing some artifacts, I did nothing else. The 4rth one doesn't seem to have quite as much color information.
bobfells
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:04 am
http://www.ArlissArchives.com
http://www.OldHollywoodinColor.com
https://www.Facebook.com/groups/413487728766029/
Gagman 66
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:05 am
Great lobby-card. I think I have a couple of posters and a trade ad in here someplace. If you can fix the teeth on Blanche sure would appreciate it. I haven't been able too.
bobfells
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:36 am
I will take Blanche to the dentist ASAP. I suppose we should mention that this photo of Blanche Sweet can be found on our own little Elba known as "Colorizing Photos" under Collecting and Preservation.
http://www.ArlissArchives.com
http://www.OldHollywoodinColor.com
https://www.Facebook.com/groups/413487728766029/
Jim Reid
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:53 am
Thanks for the warning.
silentfilm
Moderator
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:44 am
When I first started collecting stills, I stumbled across a few from this film, and have been lucky to notice when more were for sale.
Billie Dove
Billie Dove and Gilbert Roland
Billie Dove and Emile Chautard
Gilbert Roland, Billie Dove and Armand Kaliz
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
Gagman 66
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:04 am
These are great. Makes you wish that the film would be uncovered. How recently was the Hair Test fragment discovered? Do you know? Is it a fairly recent discovery? I think I have a few other stills. I'll look for them.
silentfilm
Moderator
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:53 am
I have about 30 photos from the film at my website.
I don't know if it was just recently discovered, but it was just examined by George Willeman at the Library of Congress.
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
silentfilm
Moderator
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:49 pm
Here's a 1922 Kodachrome test of Billie Dove from the same collection, courtesy of George Willeman.
http://www.silentfilmstillarchive.com
LouieD
Re: Billie Dove hair test for THE LOVE MART (1927)
Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:04 pm
Nice, any idea if they have screeners at the LOC for these?