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Auction History Result 2a094 PLAINSMAN linen French 1p R1948 Soubie art of Gary Cooper & Jean Arthur, DeMille, very rare! Date Sold 12/8/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1948 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 44" x 61" [112 x 155 cm]) (Learn More) Cecil B. DeMille's The Plainsman (released in Spain as "Buffalo Bill"), the classic 1936 Cecil B. DeMille poker gambling romantic cowboy western epic ("The raging story of the Frontier... and the daring men and women who smashed it down! Romance! Spectacle!! Drama!!!"; "The valiant story of a nation's heroes... Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, General Custer who lived recklessly... dangerously... to mold an empire out of prairies... to build cities on a range!"; a combination of all the legends about Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, and Wild Bill Hickok, including Hickok's death while gambling at poker and holding the "dead man's hand", aces and eights) starring Gary Cooper (as "Wild Bill Hickok"), Jean Arthur (as "Calamity Jane"), James Ellison (as "Buffalo Bill Cody"), Charles Bickford, Helen Burgess, and Porter Hall (as Jack McCall, the man who shot Hickok in the back). Note that Native American Indian Chief Thunder Bird was hired by Cecil B. DeMille to be the technical advisor on the movie so that the Native Americans would be authentic! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Roger Soubie Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this French one-panel! French posters from the first few years after World War II are among the most rare posters there are! Apparently, there were still major paper shortages in France, and few posters were printed, and most were recycled. This is an extremely rare French poster from the 1948 French re-release of this movie (the movie first came out in France right after the war, but posters from that release are unbelievably rare, and so are ones from this 1948 re-release). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had darkened somewhat. It had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some small tears and tiny paper loss scattered on parts of many folds, with some faint smudges and stains scattered in the background areas. It had a tear down the middle left of Cooper's shirt, and another running from the lower right of his shirt through his sleeve and down through Arthur's dress. It also had some glue residue scattered in that same area, where there likely was once a snipe, and it had pinholes around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster backed onto a thin linen, with little restoration, and it likely came in contact with some moisture at some point, because there is now some rippling scattered in parts of the poster. If I owned this poster, I would surely have it removed from the old linen and have it properly re-backed, but bear in mind its many defects and the cost of additional restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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