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The Pest, Trade Advertisement
A girl in a straw hat, two stills.
What
A 1919 trade-paper page from the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation advertising The Pest, a Samuel Goldwyn comedy.
Why
The page sells Mabel Normand to exhibitors against her earlier pictures, naming Sis Hopkins and A Perfect 36, and W. Christy Cabanne is credited as director.
Notice
The copy opens "Funnier than in “Sis Hopkins”" and tells exhibitors what her pictures "did for you, or your competitor".
“A star sold to the trade”
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 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- The Pest (1919)
- Country / studio
- United States · Goldwyn Pictures
- Format
- Other
- Poster published
- U.S. trade-paper advertisement, 1919
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
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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