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Auction History Result 9g045 CHINA SEAS linen insert '35 Clark Gable, sexy Jean Harlow & Wallace Beery + ship artwork! Date Sold 7/15/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) China Seas, the 1935 Tay Garnett Shanghai romantic love triangle high seas action adventure thriller (a pretty wild story of a captain of a steamship bound from China to Shanghai with a cargo of gold, and his floozy girlfriend "China Doll" is along on the voyage, but he meets his former girlfriend, a classy English widow, and he starts romancing her, which makes his girlfriend jealous, so she plots with her buddy to rob the gold, and the captain is almost killed, and the buddy commits suicide, and the widow realizes the captain loves his girlfriend, even though she tried to kill him, so the widow leaves, and the girlfriend is arrested, and the captain philosophically prepares for another voyage!) starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, and C. Aubrey Smith. Note that the classy English widow was played by Rosalind Russell. She had been signed by MGM the year before, and had played minor roles in several MGM movies. The following year, she got some starring roles, and she would become one of MGM's leading actresses of the 1940s, and one of their most successful actresses during World War II! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had separation, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the foldlines. There is a faint smudge in the red background above Beery's hat, extending into the top of the hat. It had tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss in the borders and some dot stains scattered in the background areas, with some light water staining in the yellow background at bottom right. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but in the years since it was backed, the restoration paint on the foldlines has become more noticeable, although any restorer could touch up those areas without re-backing the poster. The original restorer left alone the faint staining described above, and of course, that could be touched up at the same time. I would think most collectors could display this great poster just as it is, but certainly, I would not argue with anyone wanting to perform slight additional restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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