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Auction History Result 1w066 VIGIL IN THE NIGHT linen 3sh '40 beautiful Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley Date Sold 9/18/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) A.J. Cronin's Vigil in the Night, the 1940 George Stevens medical hospital doctor nurse romantic melodrama ("The author of 'The Citadel' writes his greatest drama of the world's most dramatic profession!"; "From the New Best-Seller by A.J. Cronn"; "The author of 'The Citadel' Reveals the Intimate Secrets of a Private Nurse in a drama more searching and absorbing that his first great success"; "-- the story of two sisters and a doctor who braved a cloistered code to find the love their spartan calling would deny them... Played by three great stars with a brilliance that makes this the first great human drama of the year."; "Produced and Directed by the man who made 'Gunga Din'"; "The world-famous author of 'The Citadel' bares the heartache and despair of women the world calls callous in a story even more searching and absorbing than his first great success - made trebly vivid and exciting by three brilliant stars."; "From a brilliant new novel by A.J. Cronin"; "A Doctor Tells the intimate secrets of a private nurse"; "The first authentic, 'inside' revelation of the cloistered, code-bound world of woman's most intimate profession - probing deeply and dramatically the souls of those bitter women who know men too well, yet must somehow find love in the midst of terror, toil and disillusionment"; a complicated story of a nurse who overcomes many obstacles, but ends up being a great credit to her profession!) starring Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Julien Mitchell, Robert Coote, Brenda Forbes, and Peter Cushing. Note that A.J. Cronin was a doctor who had health problems in 1930. He wrote a book called "Hatter's Castle" in 1931, and it was so successful that he stopped practicing medicine and wrote a series of books, all centering around doctors, including "The Citadel" and "Keys of the Kingdom", all of which were made into movies! 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 a few tape repairs on the back that slightly bled through to the front. It also had some stains and smudges scattered in the borders and the white background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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