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Auction History Result

1h1174 LETTER linen 1sh 1940 fascinating & dangerous Bette Davis close up & full-length, Maugham!

Date Sold 12/26/2021
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

The Letter, the classic 1940 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Singapore romantic love triangle murder blackmail crime film noir ("Fascinating, tantalizing and dangerous!"; based on the novel "by W. Somerset Maugham"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about an unfaithful wife of a Singapore rubber plantation owner who is spurned by her lover and shoots him, and then pretends it was an accident, and she almost gets away with it, but there is a letter she wrote that is incriminating, but can she get the letter destroyed, and what will her husband think?) starring Bette Davis (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Herbert Marshall (who had a lesser role in the 1929 version of this film), James Stephenson (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, and Victor Sen Yung
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Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned four examples of this one-sheet, and only one in the last 5 years!

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the middle crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had a few small tears on small parts of the folds, with some pinholes and a few tears in the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! 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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