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Auction History Result 7w267 WINGS & THE WOMAN linen 1sh '42 art of Anna Neagle as Amy Johnson, famous female aviator! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Wings and the Woman (also released as "They Flew Alone"), the 1942 Herbert Wilcox historical airplane aviation pilot documentary biography melodrama ("The startling real-life romance of Amy and Jim Mollinson"; "The true-life drama of the girl who defied convention to challenge the skies - who blazed the trail for the bombers - who was all woman, warm and loving, under the uniform which became her badge of courage... and her robe of glory!"; Thrill as you see what women with wings are doing to win the war!; "Women in the War!"; "The real-life love story of Amy and her Jim - The Flying Mollisons"; "Dreamer... daredevil... fearless rebel against all tradition... she tore aside barriers that blocked women from the skyways... and blazed the path for today's women in uniform... only to have her heart broken by the one love of her life!"; "It's true! It's Thrilling! It's tremendous!"; "She Lived The Thrills Few Women Ever Know!"; "The startling real-life romance of Amy and Jim Mollinson"; "Vikings of the skyways... she led the way for the girls who match the grit of men by ferrying bombers and blasting enemy planes with A.A. guns. Hers was the spunk to shed the shackles of her sex... hers the heartbreak of a romance that crashed!"; the story of Amy Johnson, the famous female aviator, whose record-breaking solo airplane flights around the world stunned Britain in the 1930s) starring Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Nora Swinburne, and Joan Kemp-Welch NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had extra creases and tears above and below the left half of the top and bottom foldlines, and pinholes, creases, and tears around the edges of the poster (some of which were repaired with tape on the back, which stain through to the front). The poster was not that well backed, because you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I would think few collectors would want to display it as it is, without someone performing some additional restoration. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Note that the poster was mounted onto an extremely thin linen with no excess border. Learn More about condition grades 
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