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Auction History Result 2s223 FOUNTAINHEAD linen 1sh 1949 Gary Cooper & Patricia Neal in Ayn Rand's Objectivist classic! Date Sold 12/10/2017 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) The Fountainhead, the 1949 King Vidor romantic love triangle philosophical principles architecture Objectivism melodrama ("Monumental best-seller! Towering screen triumph!"; "'Nobody takes what's mine!'"; "A picture to remember from Warner Bros."; "Warner Bros.' Towering Triumph"; "No man takes what's mine!"; "The great best seller made greater on the screen by Warner Bros."; "Screen Play by Ayn Rand from her Novel 'The Fountainhead'"; about a dedicated architect who refuses to compromise his principles, regardless of the cost; amazingly, Rand managed to keep much of the essence of her very wordy novel on screen; Rand herself picked Gary Cooper for the lead, and he had a serious affair with his much younger co-star Patricia Neal) starring Gary Cooper (as Howard Roark; "This is his role of roles!"), Patricia Neal (as Dominique Francon), Raymond Massey (as Gail Wynand), Kent Smith (as Peter Keating), Robert Douglas (as Ellsworth Toohey), Henry Hull (as Henry Cameron), Ray Collins (as Roger Enright), and Jerome Cowan (as Alvah Scarret) 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 this poster is, of course, extremely popular with fans of the novel the movie was based on! We have auctioned seven examples of the poster over all our years of auctioning, but only two in the past 18 years, and NONE in the past 8 years! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and minor wear on the folds. It had pinholes around the edges (some enlarged) and a pinhole near the center of the poster. It had a 6" diagonal tear running from the top of Cooper's hair through the "CI" of "PATRICIA", and a 7" diagonal tear in the center of the poster, running through part of Cooper's shirt, Neal's hands, and the background to the left of it. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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