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Auction History Result 3a018 KING OF BURLESQUE 40x60 '35 great huge romantic close up of sexy Alice Faye & Warner Baxter! Date Sold 12/11/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Melloy Bros. Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60") (Learn More) King of Burlesque, the 1936 Sidney Lanfield New York City Broadway theater stage acting musical romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a story by Vina Delmar"; about the successful producer of a Broadway burlesque show, and his beautiful singing star; he falls in love with a rich society woman and she convinces him to switch to producing artistic plays, which all flop, and he is penniless, but his former star, who is headlining in London, returns and she gets all of their old burlesque stars to bail him out, and before long, he is back on top and back with his true love!) starring Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Arline Judge, Mona Barrie, Gregory Ratoff, Dixie Dunbar, Fats Waller, Nick Long Jr., Kenny Baker, Jane Wyman, Keye Luke, and Lynn Bari 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 is one of the special 40x60 posters that were created by the Meloy Bros. Inc company of Shelbyville, Indiana in 1935 and 1936! This company created special 40x60 posters that were distributed to theaters in the Midwest, and are NOT like 40x60 posters that were created by the studios at that time. VERY IMPORTANT! CLICK THIS LINK TO READ FULL INFORMATION ABOUT THESE SPECIAL POSTERS (do not bid on this poster until you have read the information on the linked page). Condition: good. There is a very fine vertical scratch down the center of Faye's face. There are tiny nail holes around the edges of the poster where it must have once been nailed to a wall, but they used very thin nails, and they were carefully removed, because they left tiny holes. There is surface paper loss and tiny paper loss around the edges of the poster (more so in the corners), and the poster is "lifting" from the board in the corners. There are creases and scuffs scattered throughout the poster, more so in the solid background areas, but there ARE some in the stars' faces other than the scratch line described above (study our super-sized image to see exactly what they are, but they are not very distracting). There are also some other scuffs and smudges throughout the image and some dents and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster (please study our super-sized image to clearly see the above described defects). Certainly, a talented restorer could perform restoration to this poster, after which the defects would not be very noticeable at all. Learn More about condition grades 
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