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Auction History Result 9f596 MISSING GIRLS 1sh '36 Muriel Evans, startling truths about the woman racket! Date Sold 8/4/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Missing Girls, the 1936 Phil Rosen gambling politics kidnapping gangster murder crime thriller ("Martin Mooney's Daring Expose") starring Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison, Ann Doran, and George Cooper. The title of this movie is pretty deceptive, because the "missing girls" are only a small part of the movie, which mostly concerns a senator who wants to legalize gambling in his state, and the gamblers who run the gambling shoot him to kill the bill, and then pin the murder on someone else. 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 poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it is similar to posters printed by "Leader Press" or "the other company". A constant headache for theaters (especially those showing burlesque) was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Condition: fair to good. There are many significant defects scattered along the edges of the poster, and there is wear and bits of paper loss along the foldlines and many areas of foldline and/or crossfold separation. There is much paper loss at upper right and at left. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid and please do not bid unless you can accept the defects described above, or you are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades 
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