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Auction History Result 1h1041 DRESSED TO KILL linen 1sh 1928 Edmund Lowe in a masquerade of the underworld, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Dressed to Kill, the 1928 Irving Cummings silent romantic crime comedy ("A carnival of crime with the moral, You Can't Win"; "A Masquerade of the Underworld"; "Gangdom's evolution shown in 'Dressed to Kill'"; "Story by William Conselman and Irving Cummings"; about a mobster who meets a beautiful young woman whose boyfriend is in prison, and he is so smitten by her that he helps her get the boyfriend released, but his gang worries that he is "going soft", and he ends up getting executed by them, because he "fell for a dame") starring Edmund Lowe, Mary Astor (as the beautiful young woman), Charles Morton, Ben Bard, Bob Perry, and Joe Brown 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned two lobby cards, a pressbook, a glass slide, and some stills from this movie (and NO other U.S. movie paper of any kind) until we received this one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had an extra horizontal fold 3" above the regular middle horizontal fold, with some tears and tiny paper loss near the middle of both those folds. It had tiny paper loss near the middle of the bottom fold, with an extra fold 3" below that, with tiny paper loss in the middle of that fold. It had minor wear on the other folds. It had tears and small paper loss in the center of the top border, but otherwise, the borders had few defects. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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