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Auction History Result 4d0135 VIGIL IN THE NIGHT style B 1/2sh 1940 Carole Lombard praying, Aherne, Anne Shirley, rare! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) A.J. Cronin's Vigil in the Night, the 1940 George Stevens medical hospital doctor nurse romantic melodrama ("The author of 'The Citadel' writes his greatest drama of the world's most dramatic profession!"; "From the New Best-Seller by A.J. Cronn"; "The author of 'The Citadel' Reveals the Intimate Secrets of a Private Nurse in a drama more searching and absorbing that his first great success"; "-- the story of two sisters and a doctor who braved a cloistered code to find the love their spartan calling would deny them... Played by three great stars with a brilliance that makes this the first great human drama of the year."; "Produced and Directed by the man who made 'Gunga Din'"; "The world-famous author of 'The Citadel' bares the heartache and despair of women the world calls callous in a story even more searching and absorbing than his first great success - made trebly vivid and exciting by three brilliant stars."; "From a brilliant new novel by A.J. Cronin"; "A Doctor Tells the intimate secrets of a private nurse"; "The first authentic, 'inside' revelation of the cloistered, code-bound world of woman's most intimate profession - probing deeply and dramatically the souls of those bitter women who know men too well, yet must somehow find love in the midst of terror, toil and disillusionment"; a complicated story of a nurse who overcomes many obstacles, but ends up being a great credit to her profession!) starring Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Julien Mitchell, Robert Coote, Brenda Forbes, and Peter Cushing. Note that A.J. Cronin was a doctor who had health problems in 1930. He wrote a book called "Hatter's Castle" in 1931, and it was so successful that he stopped practicing medicine and wrote a series of books, all centering around doctors, including "The Citadel" and "Keys of the Kingdom", all of which were made into movies! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this half-sheet, and that was 13 years ago! Note that this poster was once folded, and if it can be refolded without damaging it or bringing back the creases, we are willing to do so, but because it is old and somewhat fragile, we would much prefer to send it in a large flat package, and we don't want to roll it, because that would have an excellent chance of damaging it. We will only send it rolled if the new owner accepts responsibility if it is damaged from being rolled. Please bear all this in mind before placing your bid on this rare poster. Condition: good to very good. The poster has paper loss in the four corners (fortunately mostly only affecting the blank borders, but some very slightly extends into the pink area at lower left and in the printer's union logo at lower right). There are a few tiny areas of surface paper loss at upper right in the blank paper and in Shirley's credit, and at upper left in a portion of Aherne's forehead and hair. There are some creases along portions of he left half if the center horizontal fold (see our image). The poster is in generally nice condition otherwise, and after paperbacking with some proper restoration it will display well. Learn More about condition grades 
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