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Auction History Result 4g016 AFRICAN QUEEN linen 1sh '52 cool montage artwork of Humphrey Bogart & Katharine Hepburn! Date Sold 12/3/2013 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) The African Queen, the classic 1952 (the movie briefly played in December of 1951, no doubt to qualify for the 1952 Academy Awards, but most sources list it as a 1952 movie) John Huston (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English/U.S. romantic World War I (WWI) military adventure thriller ("Actually filmed in the splendor and dangers of the Belgian Congo!"; "The mightiest adventure ever filmed!"; "Based on the novel 'The African Queen' by C.S. Forester") starring Humphrey Bogart (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Katharine Hepburn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel, Walter Gotell, Peter Swanwick, and Richard Marner. Note that although this movie opened at the end of 1951, all of the original release U.S. movie paper for this title has a 1952 NSS number (but has a 1951 copyright date). 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 bottom two crossfolds and larger paper loss at the top crossfold. It had creases, tears, and tiny paper loss in the top and bottom horizontal folds, and in the bottom quarter of the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount of wear on the other folds. It had some pinholes, tears, and areas of paper loss around the edges, extending into the edges of the image, with some pinholes in the image. Overall, the poster was in 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. Also, the person who did the restoration painted over all of the blank parts of the blank borders (to "even them out"), and there was some damage in the bottom tiny printing, and the person restored it, but they did not realize the copyright date should have read 1951, so they restored it as "1952" (any restorer could change that back to 1951 in a matter of minutes). Learn More about condition grades 
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