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Auction History Result 3d260 BEAU GESTE 41x105 silk banner '39 William Wellman, art of Legionnaire Gary Cooper, rare! Date Sold 12/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Silk Banner Movie Poster (measures 40 1/2" x 105" [103 x 267 cm]) (Learn More) Beau Geste, the classic 1939 William A. Wellman Northern Africa French Foreign Legion military war family relationship melodrama ("Gary Cooper is back at his fighting best in the most thrilling film of the Foreign Legion"; "Based on the Novel by Percival Christopher Wren"; about three brothers who all end up in the French Foreign Legion, serving together in the exact same location in North Africa) starring Gary Cooper (in the title role as Michael 'Beau' Geste), Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Susan Hayward (in her second credited movie role!), J. Carrol Naish, Donald O'Connor, James Stephenson, Heather Thatcher, and G.P. Huntley 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 the vast majority of silk banners we have seen are close to 40" x 55" in size. However, this banner is 40 1/2" x 105"! We do not have a wall that size, so it was photographed in two images that were joined together (but we assure you that the banner is one single piece of silk!). Also note that in the 1930s and 1940s, movie studios made silk burgees (also called silk banners) for most major releases. These were printed on a silk (or silk-like) material, sometimes with a gold fringe at the bottom, and usually with an opening at the top through which a wooden pole could be inserted, usually with a rope attached to both ends of the pole, so that the burgee could be hung from a nail at the theater. Few silk burgees are known to survive (we have only auctioned around a dozen of them in our many years of auctioning), and many collectors are not even aware of their existence! We have just been consigned a remarkable find of TWENTY THREE of these silk banners! That is double the amount we auctioned in all our previous 25 years of auctioning. Each of these 23 silk banners are currently at auction individually. This is a very rare opportunity to purchase one or many of this extremely rare size of original 1930s and 1940s movie posters! Condition: very good to fine. There are some creases scattered throughout the banner. Otherwise, the banner is in really nice condition. Note that banners like these are extremely rare (see above) and the few that survive often have deterioration in the silk, and sometimes the pole is missing or damaged. Some of this collection of 23 silk banners that this banner was found with have survived in better condition than the majority of the similar silk banners we have seen in the past. Learn More about condition grades 
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