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Auction History Result 2s166 BIG CHANCE linen 1sh 1933 great Hap Hadley art of young Mickey Rooney, Darrow & Kennedy! Date Sold 12/10/2017 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 Big Chance, the 1933 Albert Herman romantic boxing sports gambling crime action adventure melodrama (this movie combines every boxing movie cliche, and many of them were likely first used in this movie!; there is a young boxer who is the contender for the championship, and he makes a deal with the champ to take a dive in their championship match, but while he is training, he meets a 10 year old boy who idolizes him, and he meets the boy's older sister, and they fall in love, and he starts to have second thoughts about throwing the fight, so the champ sends his sexy girlfriend to seduce the contender, and when that doesn't work, and the boy overhears what they are planning, the champ's men kidnap the boy, but their plans backfire when the contender rescues the boy and he confesses to his girlfriend, and she tells him he has to win the fight to prove his honesty, and he says he is not good enough, and he is taking a terrible beating in the match, but ultimately, he knocks out the champ and proposes to his girlfriend, who is listening over the radio) starring John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Mickey Rooney, Natalie Moorhead, and J. Carrol Naish. Also note that this is one of 50 "Mickey McGuire" shorts that Mickey Rooney starred in between 1927 and 1933 (he started when he was only six years old!). After 1933, he had a brief "lull" in his career, but he soon resurfaced as a top teen actor, and it was not long before he moved to the top of the box office in his roles in MGM movies, both in the Andy Hardy series, and in musicals with Judy Garland. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Hap Hadley Important Added Info: Note that "Hap" Hadley was an important illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s, and one of the very few who was allowed to sign his movie poster work, and this poster has great stone litho Hap Hadley art of young Mickey Rooney (who dominates the center of the poster, even though he is third billed)! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had a slightly diagonal tear across the entire poster, running through the letters of "BIG" in the title and through the forehead of the man at right (there were only a few tiny bits of paper loss on that tear). It also had tiny paper loss at the top two crossfolds and small paper loss at the bottom crossfold. It had tears and tiny paper loss in the left half of the bottom horizontal fold and in the bottom quarter of the vertical foldline, with a few scattered tears on the other folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well. From close up, you can see the above defects, but from any reasonable viewing distance, they are really not noticeable at all. Learn More about condition grades 
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