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Auction History Result p203 SCARLET PIMPERNEL linen Danish movie poster '34 cool Wenzel art! Date Sold 3/21/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Danish Movie Poster (measures 24" x 33 1/4") (Learn More) The Scarlet Pimpernel, the 1934 (released in the U.S. in 1935) Harold Young English historical French Revolution romantic disguised hero adventure comedy ("The Scarlet Pimpernel who was he... what was his strange power?"; produced by Alexander Korda) starring Leslie Howard (in the title role as Sir Percy Blakeney/The Scarlet Pimpernel), Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher, and Anthony Bushell. Note that this movie was based on the 1905 book by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and the lead character is a "mild-mannered" English aristocrat by day, who by night poses as "The Scarlet Pimpernel", a dashing hero who rescues victims of the French Revolution, and not even his wife knows his "secret identity"! It seems quite likely that Joe Simon and Jerry Schuster at least partly based their Superman character on this character, given the huge similarities between them (except the Scarlet Pimpernel had no super powers!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: K. Wenzel Important Added Info: This Danish poster measures 24" x 33 1/4" and is linenbacked. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and one of the following is true: either the poster had very minor defects, and was well backed, OR it had more significant defects, but they were well restored, OR it had some minor defects that were not completely restored, and are somewhat noticeable. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster had 8 small circular holes in the top foldline (in pairs of four, above and below the top foldline). There is one pair in the white background to the left of Howard's hat and one to the right of Howard's hat in the white background. The other two pairs are in the left and right of Howard's hat. There are four similar pairs of holes across the bottom foldline and two of the eight holes fall in letters of the title. Other than the above defects, the poster was in nice condition prior to linenbacking with minor fold and border wear. The poster was well backed. You can see slight signs of the circular holes, but they are not distracting (and any restorer could perform further touch up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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