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Auction History Result d060 MR BROADWAY linen half-sheet movie poster '33 boxer Jack Dempsey! Date Sold 12/11/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Mr. Broadway, the 1933 Johnnie Walker New York City nightclub all-star musical comedy ("A tour of New York's famous hot spots with Ed Sullivan"; "N.T.G.'s famous paradise night club with Abe Lyman and Band"; "Famous Hollywood Night Club with Isham Jones and Band"; "Famous Central Park Casino with Ed Duchin and Band"; this was a sort of semi-documentary with Ed Sullivan, who at that time was a newspaper columnist, taking the viewer on a tour of major New York "night spots"; the highlight of the movie is the cameos of stars who appear as themselves, especially boxer Jack Dempsey, and Ruth Etting, the inspiration for the movie "Love Me or Leave Me") starring the following stars as themselves: Ed Sullivan, Frisco, N.T.G. (Nils Thor Granlund, who was a Swedish vaudeville performer, who made five movies in the 1930s and 1940s, appearing as himself, as a vaudeville performer), Jack Dempsey, Bert Lahr, Ruth Etting, Primo Carnera, Jack Benny, Hal LeRoy, Lita Grey Chaplin, Ted Husing, Lupe Velez, Jack Haley, Josephine Dunn, Johnnie Walker, Dita Parlo, and Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. There were several 2"-4" tears in the left and right of the top border, and stains in the top of the poster, extending into the white background above the man's head. There was a 9" vertical cut in the poster starting at the beginning of the bottom of the "O" of "BROADWAY" in the title, and extending down to the top of the head of the man in the inset image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked 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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