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Auction History Result 4h266 ARSENIC & OLD LACE linen Italian locandina R59 Cary Grant carrying Priscilla Lane, Frank Capra Date Sold 12/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1959 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Locandina Movie Poster (measures 13" x 30" [33 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic 1944 Frank Capra family relationship mental illness murder mystery black comedy ("From the stage play by Joseph Kesselring"; "Screen Play by Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein"; about a man with two crazy brothers, and people start dying, and he assumes it is his brothers, but he quickly finds out his kindly aunts are actually the culprits!) starring Cary Grant (as Mortimer Brewster), Raymond Massey (awkwardly playing the role written for Boris Karloff, who played it on the stage; as Jonathan Brewster), Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane (as Elaine Harper), Peter Lorre (as Dr. Einstein), Edward Everett Horton (as Mr. Witherspoon), James Gleason, Josephine Hull (as Aunt Abby Brewster), Jean Adair (as Aunt Martha Brewster), and John Alexander (as Theodore Brewster, who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt!). Note that this classic was actually filmed in 1941, but due to contractual agreements with the producers of the Broadway version (see below), it wasn't released to theaters until 1944 (though, interestingly enough, the film was still released to U.S. troops between 1941 and 1944!). The "contractual agreements" referred to above was with star Boris Karloff, who owned a portion of the Broadway version. He rightly assumed that releasing the movie version would hurt the box office of the Broadway version, so he wisely had written into the contract that the movie could not be released until the Broadway play stopped running (which usually lasted at most six months). But because this play was so incredibly popular, it ran on Broadway for three years, which meant the movie could not be released for those three years! Finally, note that during those three years, Warner Bros. had parted ways with star Priscilla Lane, so when the movie was finally released in 1944, they barely mentioned her on the U.S. advertising for the movie (she is given small third billing on the one-sheet, behind Jack Carson, and she is not billed at all on several other posters)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: CT Important Added Info: Note that there is a "1959" at the bottom of the poster, but it comes after a "683 -", so it is not a certainty that this is a 1959 date. The poster does not have a look of a 1959 locandina, but looks more like one from right after the war (especially the "Rome International Films" logo). But because the "1959" is at the bottom, we are listing it as an R59, but it may be from the 1945 first release. Also note that the Italian poster designer apparently had some trouble with English, because Jack Carson became "Yack-Carson"! If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that it is difficult to accurately date Italian posters, and some unmarked re-release posters can be extremely difficult to distinguish from first releases, so please bear that in mind before you place a bid. We used our best information to date this poster, but we can't always guarantee that the Italian posters we sell are not from an unmarked re-release, but this will only prove to be true in a very tiny number of cases. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had darkened somewhat and there were some pinholes and smudges around the edges of the poster with a 1" tear in the lower right border. There were a few tiny dot stains in the white background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but at some point after it was backed, it received smudges around the edges, some of which extend into the edges of the poster (more down the left edge). Learn More about condition grades 
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