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Auction History Result 5p0454 CENTENNIAL SUMMER linen 1sh 1946 cool art of Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell & cast! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked One-Sheet Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Jerome Kern's Centennial Summer, the 1946 Otto Preminger historical romantic musical ("Music by Jerome Kern"; "Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Leo Robin, and E.Y. Harburg"; "Based on the Novel by Albert E. Idell"; set in 1876 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; it involves a love triangle between two Philadelphia girls and a dashing Frenchman who has come to set up the French pavilion at the American Centennial exposition) starring Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, William Eythe, Walter Brennan, Constance Bennett, and Dorothy Gish NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had paper loss at the middle crossfold, with tears surrounding the bottom crossfold. It had surface paper loss on most of the folds and pinholes and creases around the edges, with paper loss in the center of the bottom border. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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