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Be My Wife, Kino-Moskva 1924

A French comic's American farce, lettered for Moscow.

What

A chromolithograph published by Kino-Moskva in 1924 for the 1921 American comedy "Be My Wife".

Why

In 1924 Soviet distributors still leaned on foreign comedies, and each one got a new Russian sheet.

Notice

The publisher, Kino-Moskva, is named in the imprint; the artist left no name.

“The NEP years at the cinema door”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
Be My Wife (1921), dir. Max Linder
Country / studio
United States
Format
Other
Poster published
Soviet film poster for Kino-Moskva, chromolithograph, 1924
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.

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