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Auction History Result 4g280 MORE THE MERRIER linen style B 1sh '43 different art of sexy Jean Arthur + 8 girls in bed! Date Sold 12/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) George Stevens' The More the Merrier, the classic 1943 George Stevens (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) World War II (WWII) housing shortage romantic love triangle comedy ("Why are nice men such dopes?"; "Home is where you hang your guests!"; "1943's new kind of movie... Sure to give you a Dingle!"; "The only picture with a dingle!"; "She saw her patriotic duty - and she dood it!"; "Story by Robert Russell and Frank Ross"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about the overcrowding during World War II, and how sexy Jean Arthur sublets half of her apartment to elderly Charles Coburn who re-sublets half of his half to sexy Joel McCrea!; it is really a wonderful romantic comedy, and makes you wish that George Stevens had made more of them, and that Joel McCrea had had more good roles in his career!) starring Jean Arthur (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Richard Gaines, and Ann Savage (in her first movie role!) 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 was a pretty daring romantic comedy for 1943, with lots of sexual innuendos, and the producers would likely have tried to have an image of Jean Arthur in bed with Joel McCrea on the poster, but they surely couldn't have gotten away with that, and instead they used an interesting image of eight generic women in bed with sexy Jean Arthur in the foreground! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and small tears and paper loss scattered down the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. There were pinholes, tears, and tiny paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that the restorer left a tiny bit of excess linen around all four sides of the poster (they left a small border in order to protect the poster from handling damage, but they did not leave a larger border, to allow it to more easily fit in a frame). Learn More about condition grades 
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