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2b274 IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD linen 1/2sh 1964 great art of entire cast by Jack Davis!

Date Sold 12/10/2019
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, the classic 1964 Stanley Kramer Cinerama slapstick crime comedy ("If ever this mad, mad, mad, mad world needed 'It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, world' It's now!"; "The biggest entertainment ever to rock the screen with laughter!"; "It's the biggest entertainment ever to hit the Cinerama screen!"; based on a story by William and Tania Rose) starring Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Jim Backus, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Alan Carney, Barrie Chase, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Peter Falk, Norman Fell, Paul Ford, Sterling Holloway, Edward Everett Horton, Marvin Kaplin, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Charles McGraw, Zasu Pitts, Carl Reiner, Madlyn Rhue, Arnold Stang, The Three Stooges (Larry Fine, Moe Howard, and Joe DeRita as Curly-Joe), Jesse White, and Jimmy Durante
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Artist: Jack Davis
Important Added Info: Note that this appears to be the same (or a very similar image) to that used for one of the one-sheets, but it certainly is much more effective (and has much less "dead" space) than the one-sheet.

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded, but it had a long diagonal crease down the right center, running just to the right of the title. It had smudges and pinholes around the edges, and some smudges and stains in the white 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. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame.
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