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Auction History Result 2a0791 LOVE HAPPY linen insert R1953 Marx Brothers, movie that discovered sexy Marilyn Monroe, rare! Date Sold 4/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1953 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Love Happy, the 1949 David Miller musical screwball comedy ("New Musical Girlesque!!!"; "Their Newest! Funniest! Musical!") starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, and Harpo), Ilona Massey ("Screendom's most beautiful blonde!"), Vera-Ellen ("Thrills in the torrid 'Sadie Thompson' dance!"), Marion Hutton ("She swings with the strings of your heart!"), Raymond Burr, Melville Cooper, Leon Belasco, Paul Valentine, Eric Blore, Bruce Gordon, Otto Waldis, and Marilyn Monroe (in only her second credited movie role!). What is remarkable is that the people who designed the posters put pictures of three pretty girls on them, but did not manage to make Marilyn Monroe one of them, surely a major blunder. She WAS pictured on one of the lobby cards, but that seems to have been almost by chance! I know this was because she was unknown at the time, but I would think they would have recognized her obvious assets! 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 previously auctioned two examples of the first release insert from this movie, but we have never before auctioned this 1953 re-release insert, which has a prominent image of sexy Marilyn Monroe in her second credited movie role! When this movie was re-released in 1953, Marilyn Monroe had become the world's greatest sex symbol, and so she was prominently pictured and credited on the posters (the U.S. poster read: "The Picture That Discovered MARILYN MONROE"), even though she had a small part, and had not been credited or pictured on the original release posters! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had just a few tiny creases on the folds, with some tiny tears, pinholes, and tiny paper loss in the borders, with some faint smudges around the edges and a few scattered in the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Note that the restorer left a tiny bit of excess linen around all four sides of the poster (they left a small border in order to protect the poster from handling damage, but they did not leave a larger border, to allow it to more easily fit in a frame). Learn More about condition grades 
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