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Auction History Result 8m476 TOMATO OMELETTE linen 1sh 1929 great art of Donald Harris as Smitty & His Pals, ultra 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) Tomato Omelette, the 1929 George Marshall silent slapstick juvenile military war comedy short ("Smitty and His Pals"; based on the comic strip by Walter Berndt) starring Donald Harris (as Smitty), Jackie Combs, Betty Jane Graham, Artye Folz, Richard Carle, and Billy Barty (in an early uncredited role). Note that Smitty was a comic strip created by Walter Berndt in 1922. It was about a 13 year old office boy, his girlfriend, his 6 year old brother, and his dog, who were collectively referred to as "His Pals". Berndt based it on his own real life experiences as an office boy. For the first ten years of the strip, Berndt used the same gimmick simultaneously used in "Gasoline Alley", where Smitty aged a year each year the strip went by, so by 1932, Smitty was 23 years old! The strip ran until 1973. In 1928 and 1929, there were ten Pathe comedy shorts based on this comic strip, but those strayed away from the source subject matter and instead were more like Our Gang comedies (which were at that time extremely successful). Movie paper from any of those shorts is extremely rare (they likely made only a one-sheet, a three-sheet and a set of 4 duo-tone lobby cards for each short, and surely few theaters ordered them). 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 first release 1929 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single poster from this movie until we received this poster! It is one of three one-sheets from three of the ten Smitty shorts we have been consigned and we are auctioning them in three separate auctions. Previous to being consigned these three posters, we had only been consigned a few lobby cards from "No Picnic" and a one-sheet from "No Sale", and no other posters or lobby cards from any of the ten Smitty shorts. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had an extra horizontal fold 1/2" below the regular middle one and an extra fold just above the regular top horizontal fold. It had some tears in the left of the top horizontal fold and minor wear on the other folds. It had some faint stains around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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