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Auction History Result 7k243 HOTEL FOR WOMEN linen 1sh '39 incredible sexy full-length pin-up art by McClelland Barclay! Date Sold 11/30/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women, the 1939 Gregory Ratoff romantic melodrama ("Elsa says: 'Don't ever shoot a man, dears! He's worth more to you alive than dead!'"; "Elsa says: 'Girls Do depend on men [the dogs!] ...some for excitement ... some for fame... and some even for love!'"; "A girl in every room ..and a man on every mind!"; "Based on a story by Elsa Maxwell and Kathryn Scola"; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck) starring Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Ann Sothern, Elsa Maxwell, John Halliday, Lynn Bari, Katharine Aldridge, Alan Dinehart, Jean Rogers, June Gale, Joyce Compton, and Amanda Duff. Note that 20th Century-Fox hired famous pin-up artists McClelland Barclay, George Petty, Bradshaw Crandell, and John LaGatta to create the one-sheet, three-sheet and half-sheets (and the lookalike title card) for this movie. Each featured great pin-up art of a sexy girl (none look like the actresses in the movie, but nobody minded!). They advertised it this way: "When these artists paint a girl, the whole world stops to LOOK! Petty, John La Gatta, McClelland Barclay, Bradshaw Crandell ...and each has created a striking figure especially for your 'Hotel For Women' campaign!" NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: McClelland Barclay Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a wavy 8" vertical tear in the top center, solely in the black background area, running to the right of the vertical foldline. It also had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some creases, scuffs, and separation on parts of some foldlines. There were some faint scuffs scattered in the black background areas. 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. While I would think most collectors could happily display this great poster just as it is (because its defects are not very distracting), I can also imagine other collectors wanting to have some additional restoration performed (either with or without re-backing the poster). In any event, I envy the new owner of this great poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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