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Auction History Result 4p011 13TH CHAIR linen 1sh '37 clairvoyant Dame May Whitty holds a seance to find the killer! Date Sold 4/7/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Thirteenth Chair, the 1937 George B. Seitz England clairvoyant seance murder mystery crime melodrama ("From the play by Bayard Veiller"; "The screen dares new thrills!"; "The screen mystery that defies solution... just as the stage play held audiences breathless, spellbound for 40 weeks!"; "13 WERE ALIVE... when the lights went out!"; about a phony clairvoyant who holds a seance and one of the people is murdered, and Scotland Yard investigates the case, but the medium brings the remaining people together for a second seance, trying to scare the guilty party into revealing themselves) starring May Whitty (billed as "Dame May Whitty"; as the clairvoyant/medium), Madge Evans, Lewis Stone, Elissa Landi, Thomas Beck, Henry Daniell, Janet Beecher, and Ralph Forbes. Note that this was based on a very successful 1916 Broadway play that had been filmed in 1919, and was remade in 1929, by Tod Browning, and this was the third remake! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. The poster had creases, tears, and areas of paper loss down the vertical foldline and at the crossfolds. There was a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. There was an NSS number on the back of the top right, and tears and some areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was not very well backed, and the restorer did not leave any excess linen around the edges, and the poster is separating from the linen in the bottom right corner. Learn More about condition grades 
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