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Auction History Result 5a0048 SECRET OF MADAME BLANCHE linen style B 3sh 1933 Irene Dunne & Phillips Holmes, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) The Secret of Madame Blanche, the 1933 Charles Brabin family relationship murder romantic melodrama ("From the play 'The Lady' by Martin Brown"; about a woman who is a singer who has a wealthy boyfriend and becomes pregnant; they marry but the husband kills himself, and the husband's father convinces the singer to give up the baby to his wealthy family, and decades later, she meets her son, and he doesn't know she is his mother, and after he commits murder, she takes the blame for it so his life won't be ruined) starring Irene Dunne (in the title role as Madame Blanche), Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes, Una Merkel, Douglas Waltot, and Mitchell Lewis. Note that this movie borrows a huge portion of the plot from "Madame X", which was made several times itself! Also note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", retitled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman! 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 a herald, a glass slide, and a few stills from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this three-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some folds, with many light smudges in the yellow background areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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