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Auction History Result 8m442 SHANGHAI GESTURE linen 1sh 1942 Josef von Sternberg, art of Gene Tierney & Mature, rare! Date Sold 8/12/2018 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) The Shanghai Gesture (released in France simply as "Shanghai"), the 1942 Josef von Sternberg China Asian gambling crime film noir melodrama ("Shanghai Where almost anything can happen... and does!"; "From the celebrated play by John Colton"; "Not one dared to refuse this invitation!"; "Mother Gin Sling requests the pleasure of your company at dinner on Saturday Evening, the fourteenth of February at eight o'clock at Mother Gin Sling's Casino to usher in the Chinese New Year R.S.V.P. I am SURE you will come!"; "All roads meet in Shanghai where Mother Gin Sling ruled its glittering underworld - where lovely young Poppy was swiftly swept under by a half-mad love - where fatefully fascinating Dr. Omar thanked Allah for the love of which he tired so quickly! Fascinating characters made the stage play memorable - will make the picture unforgettable!"; produced by Arnold Pressburger; about an Asian woman who runs a gambling house in Shanghai, and a rich businessman buys the land it is on, and she must vacate soon, but she has an ace in the hole, which is that she was married to the businessman many years ago, and he has a daughter who has turned up in the gambling house, and the Asian woman gets the daughter addicted to drugs and alcohol, so that she can blackmail her father) starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston ("Sir Guy Charteris! Arrogant - powerful - trapped by the follies of his youth!"), Victor Mature, Ona Munson ("Mother Gin Sling - impassive, strange - with a past people could only hint at!"), Phyllis Brooks ("Dixie Pomeroy! She played a game with her youth and beauty... as the police waited!"), Albert Basserman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Eric Blore, Clyde Fillmore, Ivan Lebedeff, and Rex Evans 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 this is a very rare poster! We have only auctioned three examples of it in all our years of auctioning, and one was in much lesser condition, and the last time we auctioned it was 13 years ago! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a second partial vertical fold 1/4" to the right of the regular one, in the top half of the vertical fold, and there are small tears scattered between the two folds in that area. There is also separation and tiny paper loss on parts of the rest of the folds. The poster also had tears and small paper loss scattered down the left and right sides, extending into the image in a few areas. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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