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Auction History Result 3p174 I'LL GIVE A MILLION linen 1sh '38 romantic art of Warner Baxter & pretty Marjorie Weaver! Date Sold 12/7/2014 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) I'll Give a Million, the 1938 Walter Lang inheritance romantic screwball comedy ("Romance is grand... If it IS romance! So he ditches his riches and goes looking... Incognito!"; "Darryl F. Zanuck in charge of production"; "Based on a story by Cesare Zavattini and Giaci Mondaini"; about a wacky millionaire who is about to commit suicide, but saves a tramp from committing suicide instead, and then switches clothing with him, spreading the word that he will give a million dollars to the first person who is kind to him, even though he is in tramp clothing, and so people all over that area start treating ALL homeless people with respect, hoping to find the disguised millionaire, and he ends up marrying a circus performer, and donating the money to the entire community) starring Warner Baxter, Marjorie Weaver, Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Lynn Bari, and Fritz Feld. Note that this was a nearly exact remake of a 1935 Italian movie by the wonderful Italian writer Cesare Zavattini (who would go on to write The Bicycle Thief [Ladri di biciclette], Miracle in Milan [Miracolo a Milano], and Shoeshine [Sciuscia]). 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: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had pinholes and some smudges around the edges, with some faint water staining in the right of the bottom border and scattered in the right border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting (and a talented restorer could touch them up without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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