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Auction History Result 3d236 STREET ANGEL 1/2sh '28 scared Janet Gaynor hides from soldiers inside a huge drum, rare! Date Sold 12/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Frank Borzage's Street Angel, the 1928 Frank Borzage romantic melodrama ("A Neapolitan Love Lyric"; "From the play by Monckton Hoffe"; "They're coming! They're coming!"; "William Fox presents America's beloved sweethearts in the screen's greatest love story"; after their great success in "Seventh Heaven", Gaynor and Farrell were reunited in this movie, which has Gaynor posing as the Madonna for painter Farrell, and she is falsely arrested, which sends him in downward spiral, but after she is released from jail, she seeks him out and she helps him find his way back, and they fall in love; the movie was heavily inspired by the major German successes of that time, such as "Sunrise") starring Janet Gaynor (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film and two others; this was the first year Academy Awards were given!), Charles Farrell (Gaynor and Farrell are billed as "in the greatest roles of their meteoric careers"), Alberto Rabagliati, Cino Conti, Guido Trento, and Dave Kashner (as the Strong Man). 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 rare half-sheet was made at a time when William Fox was creating some lobby cards and half-sheets on a linen-like paper (like what Warner Bros. would do a decade later), and also, many movies would have a half-sheet that had a traditional poster image, and another half-sheet that had an image of a lobby card, only four times bigger! We are offering one of each kind of half-sheet from this historic movie in two separate auctions. Prior to this, we had NEVER auctioned a half-sheet from this movie before! A talented restorer gel backed the poster (meaning they backed the poster onto a gel material) and they then performed excellent restoration to the defects described below, and then removed the gel backing, so that the poster still exactly looks and feels like an original poster (and it is!), with no backing at all. The restoration was done really well, and the poster displays really well! Condition: very good. The poster was gel backed (see above). This particular poster was never folded. It had some scattered paper loss in the right 8" of the top border (slightly extending into the image) and in the top 6" of the right border (also extending into the image). It had some small areas of paper loss scattered in the other borders, with a 4" tear in the upper left corner, extending into the image background. It had a diagonal crease in the lower right of the image, extending into the left leg of the furthest man at right. Otherwise, this poster, which is printed on a linen-like paper, was in nice condition prior to being restored. The poster was gel backed by a talented professional and expert restoration was performed to the above defects. The poster looks fantastic, and it has only had touch up in the exact areas where there were defects, and best of all, it still completely looks and feels like an unrestored poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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