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Auction History Result 1s035 GRADUATE linen int'l pre-Awards insert '68 image of Dustin Hoffman & Anne Bancroft in bed! Date Sold 8/19/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked International Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36") (Learn More) The Graduate, the classic 1968 Mike Nichols (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) coming-of-age romantic melodrama ("'Benjamin do you find me undesirable?' 'Oh, no Mrs. Robinson. I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends.'"; "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future."; "'Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me...aren't you?'"; "Screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry"; "Songs by Paul Simon performed by Simon and Garfunkel"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a college graduate who becomes involved with the wife of his father's business partner and then romances her daughter) starring Anne Bancroft (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Mrs. Robinson), Dustin Hoffman (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Benjamin Braddock), Katharine Ross (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Elaine Robinson), William Daniels (as Mr. Braddock), Murray Hamilton (as Mr. Robinson), Elizabeth Wilson (as Mrs. Braddock), Buck Henry (who wrote the screenplay, as the "Room Clerk"), Brian Avery (as Carl), Norman Fell (as Mr. McCleery), and a young Richard Dreyfuss (in a bit part, but he does have two lines!) 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 when this classic movie was first released in 1968, there were two regular one-sheets, one half-sheet, and one insert. One one-sheet had a line drawing of a woman's leg, and the other has the classic image of Bancroft's stockinged leg with Hoffman behind her and the great tagline "This is Benjamin. He's a little worried about his future". The half-sheet and insert both had an equally classic image of Hoffman and Bancroft in bed with the quote beginning "Benjamin - do you find me undesirable?". To further complicate things, Embassy Releasing released the movie in the United States, and United Artists released it outside the United States. Both studios issued both styles of one-sheets, and the half-sheet and insert, so there are four different original release one-sheets (the ones from United Artists say "1SH FOR." on the back) and two original half-sheets and two original inserts. To make things even more complicated, right after the movie won several Academy Awards, new posters were printed with "Academy Award Winner" added to the area at top (the fact that this large area had been left blank says to me that they had planned in advance to add this after the Academy Awards). The pre-award one-sheets, half-sheets, and inserts, especially the "This is Benjamin" style one-sheet and the pre-Awards half-sheet and insert, from both Embassy and United Artists are the most desireable posters from this movie. Offered in this auction is the international pre-awards insert poster from United Artists. Condition: very good. The poster had an additional horizontal foldline halfway between the regular top foldline and the top of the poster (it falls in the blank area at top). There were a few pairs of staple holes and faint smudges around the edges of the poster and a censor stamp in the bottom left blank background area, and minor wear along the foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, but the restorer did not paint over the faint censor stamp at bottom left (it is not very distracting at all, and any restorer could touch up that area without re-backing the poster). Also note that the poster is slightly "lifting" from the linen backing in the top left corner (any restorer could easily re-glue that area without any difficulty). Learn More about condition grades 
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