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Auction History Result 2s590 WEST SIDE STORY linen pre-Awards 1sh '61 Academy Award winning classic musical, wonderful art! Date Sold 6/12/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) West Side Story, the classic 1961 Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (winners of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) New York City romantic dance musical ("The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures"; "'Best Picture' Winner of 10 Academy Awards 1961"; "Based upon the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince" winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; with a sentimental script by Ernest Lehman, which borrows heavily from "Romeo & Juliet"; based on a book by Arthur Laurents) starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and George Chakiris (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film). The wonderful music was by Leonard Bernstein and the equally wonderful lyrics were by Stephen Sondheim. Note that Natalie Wood's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon (who had also dubbed The King and I and The Sound of Music), and Richard Beymer's singing was dubbed as well. Recordings exist of some of Natalie Wood's singing, and she absolutely would have been fine, but Hollywood demands perfection! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Joseph Caroff Important Added Info: Note that this one-sheet was re-used after the movie won the Best Picture Academy Award, and a large paper snipe was very neatly glued on in the top left background area. This was a snipe that was sent by the studio. Some people would choose to have it removed from the poster, but personally I think it adds to the poster, and the poster IS the very rare pre-awards one-sheet! Also, note that the classic art for this classic movie poster has long and often been misidentified as being by Saul Bass, but it is actually by Joseph Caroff! What IS linenbacking? Learn More UPDATED 06/07/2011: We initially had a note with this auction that mentioned a snipe on the poster. That note was in error and this poster does NOT have the snipe previously mentioned! Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top and bottom crossfolds and larger paper loss at the middle crossfold. There were extra creases, tears, and some tiny areas of paper loss scattered down the center of the poster and in the horizontal folds. There were some tears around the edges that extended into the image, more so in the bottom center. 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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