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Auction History Result 4g022 ALL AT SEA linen rotogravure 1sh '29 Karl Dane, George K. Arthur + really cool shark art! Date Sold 12/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Rotogravure One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28" x 42 1/4" [71 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) All at Sea, the 1929 Alfred J. Goulding (billed as "Alf Goulding") silent Navy Naval military sailor comedy ("The laugh on the ocean wave"; about a vaudeville hypnotist/magician who performs at a club frequented by sailors and Marines, and a sailor hires him to hypnotize his friend, with comedic results) starring Karl Dane (as "Stupid McDuff"), George K. Arthur, Josephine Dunn, Herbert Prior, and Eddie Baker. Note that Karl Dane and George K. Arthur appeared in two of the same movies in the mid-1920s, and then in 1927, MGM paired the huge Dane with the diminutive Arthur as a comedy team in 1927's "Rookies", and they were a huge hit, and over the next four years, they appeared in a total of 17 comedies as a Laurel & Hardy-like slapstick comedy team. But Dane had a very thick accent, and he could not make the transition to sound movies, and he had a few bit parts given to him by friends, but by 1934, he was washed up, and he bought a hot dog cart which he displayed outside of the MGM gates! Apparently, he reasonably found this extremely depressing, and he soon committed suicide. The following year, Arthur retired from movies and became a Broadway producer among other careers, and he lived until 1985, when he was 86 years old! 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 the bottom of this poster has really excellent cartoon-like art of the three leads on a lifeboat fending off sharks! We don't know who did this art (Hirschfeld and John Held Jr. worked for MGM at this time, but it does not appear to be the work of either of them). If anyone knows who did this art, please e-mail us and we will post it here. In the late 1910s through the early 1930s, MGM (and sometimes Paramount and a couple of other studios) would often make a regular one-sheet for a movie and, instead of a second style regular one-sheet, would instead make a special "rotogravure" one-sheet. Named after the rotogravure picture sections at the time popular in Sunday newspapers, these one-sheets would be printed in a single color, often sepia, but sometimes other colors, and they would usually incorporate pictorial images from the movie combined in a montage fashion. Very few rotogravure one-sheet have survived, since they were printed on the same paper stock used in newspapers of the time, and the paper is very fragile and often darkens. Also note that this poster measures 28" x 42 1/4" [71 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was folded in half an extra time. It had paper loss at the crossfolds and paper loss and tears scattered across the top horizontal fold and in the top quarter of the extra left vertical fold, with a lesser amount of wear on the other foldlines. There was an area of paper loss in Karl Dane's neck and small surface paper loss in Arthur's cheek. 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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