Suds Mylnaya Pena

Pocket-size brochure is part of a larger series of supplements to famous Soviet film newspapers: "Kino" ["Cinema"] and "Sovetsky Ekran" ["The Soviet Screen"], printed in a run of 20 000 copies. Brochure for release in Russia of the 1920 American silent comedy film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Mary Pickford. The film is based on the 1904 English stage play 'Op o' Me Thumb, a one-act work first produced in London and presented the following year in New York with Maude Adams, a curtain raiser for her appearance in Peter Pan. The film poster appears on the front cover and a photomontage containing shoots from the movie is inside. Great condition, tears on the edges, light sporadic stains, paper faded, stamp on the front cover. 6 pages.